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When you heard your name tonight, is it all surreal what goes through your mind as you
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take that walk to the stage? Yeah. Like what went through your mind? Yeah, the whole walk was, is this real
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Did this happen? I was sort of like looking down, trying not to trip in my very high shoes, thinking, did
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that actually, am I really? Yeah, I'm going, okay, oh, there are the steps, don't trip. Okay, okay, I'm there, there's Kenny Leon and David Henry Wong handing me a Tony
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So yeah, that was pretty cool. What's made this so special for you
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I mean, you and I spoke many times during this, but what made it so special working on this play
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I love this play so much. I just think it's so important and being part of bringing it back into public awareness
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into the canon, the idea that maybe there are going to be a bunch of productions of
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this play around the country now is kind of such, that's so deeply meaningful
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I also just, my relationship with Annie Kaufman and this journey, you know, she came and got
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ready with me today. We got dressed up and got our hair and makeup done together
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And we were just sort of like had a moment thinking, you know, this was eight years in the making
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And if this happens, she said, I just want you to think about that. And it's like, yeah, it'll make me start crying again
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It was really, really special. You always come back to the theater
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We lose you sometimes to other mediums, but you always come back. Tell me why
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I became an actor to do theater. I got hooked on the power of communing with an audience of what happens, the live things
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that happen between two people on a stage when you do it every night and different things
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that come out and having everybody sit together and hear a story together
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I mean, I believe in storytelling in all its different mediums, but in the theater, I've
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just never experienced anything like that. I believe in it so deeply. So I'll always, I'll always be a theater actor primarily
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
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I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor. I'm a theater actor
