Anne Heche's Ex James Tupper Reacts to Emily Bergl's Kind Tribute Defending the Late Actress
15.08.2022 - 22:19
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Anne Heche’s co-star, Emily Bergl, paid a touching tribute to the actress -- who was declared dead on Friday, a week after a fiery car crash. In a lengthy post on her Instagram, Bergl honored Heche, who was often described as “crazy.” “You worked with crazy Anne Heche?” “So how crazy was she?” I worked with Anne Heche for two years on the TV show, and this line of questioning was usually the first out of people’s mouths,” the 47-year-old wrote next to a photo of the late actress. “She elicited more curiosity than any other famous person I’ve ever worked with.
I’d like to give you the answers to the questions I most received about Anne, answers that I gave many, many times. Anne was not only a genius, but one of the most astoundingly focused and prepared actors I’ve ever worked with. I don’t think I ever saw her miss her mark.
I imagine she may have called for her line once or twice but I can’t recall her ever needing it. I asked her what her secret was, and she told me her first job was playing twins on, so she had to memorize up to seventy pages of dialogue a day,” she wrote about the actress who starred on the ABC comedy from 2006-2008. A post shared by Emily Bergl (@emilybergl)“The only joke I did make about Anne was that it’s likely she didn’t have a psychotic break, but really was an alien, because her strength seemed super human.
She would work for twelve hours, invite everyone to the bar, drink a couple of doubles, and be back at work at four AM,” she continued in her tribute. “As I would roll in feeling barely human, she would walk into the makeup trailer, always on time, her smiling face luminous without a lick of makeup.
Scene after scene, her work would be flawless, and yet always remained spontaneous. I
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