Marcia Gay Harden |
... Lucy the Fat Pig |
In her sixth year in New York, struggling to become a working actress, Marcia appeared
with a nonspeaking role as Lucy the Fat Pig in an NYU graduate production of "Comedy of
Errors." "I was literally playing a hag with beanbag breasts that is part of the farce of
the play. It wasn't even ham acting, it was spam acting, but it was really fun and big
and funny," Harden said, laughing. "My character was an all-but-silent character, so
that's why I invented her to be Lucy the Fat Pig _ so I could grunt in certain places
and have a say in the rhythm of the dialogue with my grunts. I just never wanted to be
too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things." Casting director
Donna Isaacson, who had seen Harden in a few auditions, came to see the student
production. "Now here," Isaacson told The New York Times, "is someone with nerve.
She just went for it. There was no holding back." Isaacson immediately called her in
to audition for the Coen Brothers' "Miller's Crossing."
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