Kathleen Turner Reveals Her Work Deal Breakers and Her Teaching Goal at University of Virginia: ‘I Want to Pass on the Responsibility’
26.09.2022 - 19:51
/ usmagazine.com
Kathleen Turner‘s deal breakers for what she won’t do for a role haven’t changed in the more than four decades she’s worked on screen and on stage. In fact, she jokes that she’s “boringly consistent.”
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“I read an interview I did 35 years ago and I thought, there isn’t a thing there I wouldn’t say now. How about equal pay, a lot of other things,” the famed actress, 68, exclusively tells Us Weekly. “But I won’t do a story that hinges on a child’s life being in danger, this is cheap. And as a parent, it goes right to the gut and it’s cheap cop-out work. Won’t do it. Won’t do abuse toward women. I’ll tell you, here’s the basic formula. If you take the woman out of the script and the story does not change, then she is not necessary. She is just a token, and I don’t do tokens.”
Her latest in The Swearing Jar is far from that. With a leading actress in Adelaide Clemens and more women behind the scenes, the Canadian musical drama checks off several boxes for the Broadway vet.
“One of the things that really pulled me to it was that it’s all women. Producer, writer [Kate Hewlett], director [Lindsay MacKay], Adelaide. And I like very much to support as many women’s works as I can without obviously compromising my own standards. I mean, I’m not going to do a film just because its women doing it, you know, that’s pretty silly. But I loved the relationship between the young couple,” Turner explains. “I think that my character was, she’s harsh. She’s not a happy woman, let’s say. And she might even be served as an example for what not to, but it doesn’t make her less of a good character, a good support [with] some good advice. She’s got insights she has that have come with her age.”
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