Mona Lisa Smile
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a new
young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus. Unfortunately
for free-minded Watson, her teaching stint comes during a
less-progressive time that finds most of her students more interested in nabbing a good
husband than achieving scholastic and intellectual growth. Watson challenges her
students and the Wellesley faculty to think outside of the current mores of the
community and redefine what it means to be a success. |
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Julia Roberts
Kirsten Dunst
Julia Stiles
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Marcia Gay Harden |
... Katherine Watson
... Betty Warren
... Joan Brandwyn
... Giselle Levy
... Nancy Abbey |
When Marcia began to figure out how to play a professor of speech, elocution, poise, and
homemaking at Wellesley College circa 1953 for "Mona Lisa Smile," she thought of her
mother: "I definitely knew that my mother had a lot of similar attributes and grace as
this character Nancy Abbey, so I culled a lot from my mother. The rest of Nancy I created
because there was a silliness to her. So, it was a combination. Usually I work on voice
first, but the character dictates where to find the truth, and that's what it's about.
It's not a specific formula, because each character and each play and each film asks
something different of you, so you approach it in a different way - all trying to find
truth."
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