“I was ashamed of my own depression. I thought I shouldn't acknowledge it, because it's not as severe as other people that I've seen, which is just a waste of energy.” Aya Cash shares her story. HowIFightDepression
opens with a black screen and the satisfying sound of tap shoes rapping on a wood floor. Sensual hip rolls and jazz hands soon follow. But as the salacious show-biz drama unfolds, an even more intriguing dance gets underway: the fierce, loyal, and thoroughly real friendship between Gwen Verdon , the Broadway actress time forgot, and her close friend Joan Simon, the first of playwright Neil Simon’s four wives, brought to life by Aya Cash.
On the contrary, achieving that thick-as-thieves on-screen bond with Williams required no behind-the-scenes fluffing. Williams and Cash are both Brooklynites and vintage clothing hounds who, on their first, freezing day of filming—that Majorca scene was actually shot on Long Island—banded together for warmth. “She's very easy, I think probably with everyone,” Cash says, “but I'd like to think [with] me, specifically, just because I want to be special.
It’s a path Cash has decidedly not chosen in real life. “Look, I am someone who clearly seeks spotlight,” she says. But Cash also felt strongly about not judging Joan, and instead saw her as a woman secure enough in herself to step away from the limelight and let her partner shine. “Someone could make the argument that [Joan] was another smart talented woman who gave up her career for a man,” Cash says. “For me, feminism is about choice.
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