Tommy Dorfman, in the throes of her Broadway debut, called up her friend Gayle Rankin to talk vices, vapes, and pre-show rituals.
? The answer is: one cigarette, one cold brew, one dirty chai, some hot yoga, a 10-minute app-based meditation, and one dog walk . “Some days I feel really open to making eye contact with the audience,” the actor explained of her double act. “But there are days where I’m terrified, and I need to just lay down on the blow-up inflatable plastic couch and stare into the lights until I go blind.”
DORFMAN: Well, first of all, thank you. I’m very grateful for your words and I feel so similarly about your work. It is really revelatory and visceral in a way that I find quite inspiring. I remember feeling very connected to you when I saw you in. I was like, “I really get what’s happening here.” It’s like an invitation to explore things in a different way, to play with text and what you think of as familiar in a different way.
DORFMAN: I remember as I was thinking about the second part of this play, the tragedy part coming up, I die as Tybalt. I come back and I’m laid as Tybalt where I died, and then I pop up as the Nurse and tell Juliet that Tybalt died. And it feels like the Nurse sort of pays homage to Tybalt throughout the rest of the play, takes on some of that ferociousness and refocuses it.DORFMAN: Completely. I just feel really grateful for this job.
RANKIN: Yeah, she’s asking for guidance. I want to hear about your rituals. What’s your day like, and what do you do at the theater? RANKIN: You’re lucky though, because Sam wouldn’t let me have props. I remember we did Threepenny Opera at Juilliard and I was like, “Hey, I really think my character would do cocaine.” And he was like, “No.”
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