The crack instrumentalists also proved talented singers and eager actors, delivering the words of Stravinsky, the Broadway producer Harold Prince, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and others.
"I've always been struck by how eager actors are to play women," says Carroll, "Actors are people who want to experience different realities – what it might be like to murder or seduce someone – and playing a woman involves a big imaginative leap".
He's an eager, candid actor, yet the movie is coy about Georges Devereux.
Here once again are a posturing, pretentious director and a group of eager amateur actors.
Now, like an over-eager method actor, I was struggling to break character.
It is a coming-of-age picture which seems not so different from any other but hits delightfully odd notes thanks to Mottola's terrifically smart script and a cast of mostly eager young actors.
Armed with a rolodex of underdeployed and eager character actors, the pair peer into New York neuroses through the lens of a person who gets to see all different types of city kooks up close: the urban marijuana dealer.
CURTAIN time was set for 3 p.m. Saturday, just five days later, so scores of eager young actors were waiting to audition for a part at the John Harms Center for the Arts in Englewood.
The first is the almost blind devotion of the Bats, the Flea Theatre's populous company of brave and super-eager young actors, whose sheer numbers almost overwhelm the theatre's intimate lower-level black box and who willingly leave no sensational stone unturned — onstage sodomy, incest, necrophilia, castration, etc.
The cumulative effect is intoxicating, as we follow the life paths of Gosling's self-undermining jazz musician and Stone's eager but tentative actor.
Other distributors are predictably running scared, but The Dressmaker, in which The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth stars opposite Kate Winslet, may pick up some fans of the actor eager for second helpings.
