MANTELLO: I remember, very early on in L.A., Tony said, “May I give you a bit of advice? I think that you should, when you rehearse this scene, go full out. By that I mean fake sobbing, so that it’s too big, too much. Let it be as phony as you want it to be, but throw yourself on the floor. Don’t worry if you’re not feeling it, just do it. Until you understand the emotional level of the scene, which has to start very heightened, you won’t find the scene.” So if you approach it like an American actor, you know, My mother, I have to dredge
