“I play a bleached blond, a very lost Southern soul who accidentally murders her sister with a large ceramic clown.”
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In “Enid Is Sleeping,” shot in Santa Fe, N.M., she enjoyed her first full starring role, where her character carries the picture. The concentration is on what the characters are going through.” “So his scenarios become very undefinable. “Alan doesn’t like the production or costume design to interfere with the emotional life of his characters,” Perkins said. They lie somewhere in the dream world of movies, where the characters can unlock their hearts’ secrets. The romanticism in Rudolph’s films create a nether world free of time and place. Alan is one of the only writer-directors who has the ability to instill both feminine and masculine qualities into a film.” Perkins said she was also attracted to the project because of the presence and treatment of women in the film. It wasn’t until I read Alan’s script that I got anything different.” “So (every script submission) I got was an uptight executive with a heart of gold deep down inside somewhere. But the minute ‘Big’ came out, I became the uptight executive with a heart of gold deep down inside somewhere. “At least it was a departure from the role in ‘About Last Night. Perkins’ next two films-”Sweet Heart’s Dance” and “From the Hip”-were pretty forgettable, then came “Big,” as in big break. She is so unattractive and that hairdo and those clothes and she’s has such a mean spirit.’ I never thought that it would do something to my career, that it would be the way people perceive me.” Friends would say, ‘I can’t believe you did that on film, especially your first movie.
In other words, the kind of role many actresses would shrink from.
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“ the movie adaptation of David Mamet’s 1972 play about the Chicago singles scene, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” Her character, Joan Gunther, was a plain, tasteless woman embittered by male exploitation and rejection. Within two weeks she landed a part in the touring company of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and later played the role on Broadway. Then one day she impulsively moved to New York.
She attended the Goodman Theater School and performed locally. I used to be absolutely fascinated when I was around people.”Īfter high school, Perkins moved to Chicago and was there during that city’s theatrical explosion of the late ‘70s. Any child that isolated will develop an overactive imagination. “That played an enormous part in my becoming an actress. She grew up in an isolated environment on a 600-acre farm in southern Vermont. That search began in the perfect atmosphere.
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