My dear friend Alex has a video up on her site with a compilation of her television work (go here and then click on Media Kit – it’s a compilation of scenes from Grey’s Anatomy, Nurses and ER (can we please get this actress OUT of the hospital??), and it’s made me cry. I love the laughing scene with Lynn Redgrave. There’s a reality to Alex’s work, an honesty – a clear-eyed honesty – that I find tremendously moving. I’m all choked up right now, as the rain batters my windows.
There was also such a cosmic-tumbler coincidental moment yesterday – involving a random meeting between Alex and my cousin Mike – that I am still reeling from it. Small world, peeps, small world!!
Sheila, I love that scene with Ms. Redgrave!. Her comeback to all that vitriol…the burst of laughter… really turns the scene on its ear and takes it to an unexpected and as you said, such an honest place. To pull that off as if it was never written in the first place, but the natural progression of this very particular relationship…Alex really is crazy talented!
Yes!!
“It killed your father.”
“He died in a car accident!”
“He was on his way to church to PRAY for YOU.”
long pause.
“hahahahahahahahahahaha”
Beautiful! Isn’t that how life happens sometimes? Love it.
omg..email the meeting of Mike and Alex..immediately
Check your email, Mitchell!