At a restaurant, she laughs with her mouth full of food, an indignity from which many actors might shrink, yet there are also moments when she melts, as if in the warmth of the title.
At the time, there was rancor in the ranks, the effects of a strike by the Writers Guild of America and the anxiety of actors over shrinking pay as studios and television networks tightened their belts.
The characters play second fiddle to the environment in the Italian episode of "I Vinti"; the actors seem to shrink beside the awesomely looming, coldly oppressive images of modern buildings going up quickly in grandiose modern urbanistic projects.
Actors grow and shrink, often drastically, sometimes between projects, sometimes during.
All of which seems strange for a 32-year-old actor who shrank from Hollywood after the extreme exposure of playing Peter Parker's pal Harry in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.
They could have used the same CGI they use to shrink tall actors to play the dwarfs in films such as The Huntsman.
There was a shelf marked "Joyas" ("Jewels"), with "The Palm Beach Story," "Blue Velvet," "Gun Crazy," "Ed Wood," and the 1936 kitsch horror classic "Devil Doll," whose shrinking actors helped inspire the surreal movie-within-a-movie in "Talk to Her," in which a man gives himself an elixir and disappears into his girlfriend's vagina.
The academy is run by a pair of lesbians (ageing movie stars Alida Valli and Joan Bennett), and a bizarre shrink (ubiquitous cult actor Udo Keir) explains that the place was once a notorious witches' coven.
However, the marginal benefits of marketing strategies are beginning to shrink because most of the actors have similar plans.
Now, in the post-Method age, actors seem expected to inflate or stretch or shrink or compress themselves to fit the character.
