{"id":550,"date":"2009-06-19T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-elizabeth-ashley-2.html"},"modified":"2009-06-19T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T17:19:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-elizabeth-ashley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Elizabeth Ashley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Ashley comments on playing opposite both Estelle Parsons and Phylicia Rashad in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">August: Osage County<\/span> in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/broadway\/news\/06-2009\/elizabeth-ashley-hits-the-mother-lode_19707.html\">interview<\/a> with Theatremania:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are both great actresses, no doubt about it. Estelle was dangerous and brutal; she was like an assassin laying in wait and you always saw her intelligence. Phylicia is different; with her Violet, you see the vulnerability, the loving mother, and the fall from grace when she is clutched by her demons. You see the entire spectrum of the woman. I&#8217;ve always believed that with brilliant writing there is no right way to play any part &#8212; although there are wrong ways &#8212; and actors with creative imagination, which is the greatest gift we have, can find their own way to serve the text.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On playing Violet Weston:<\/p>\n<p>I might give it a shot someday, but having worked with Estelle and Phylicia, even I might be cowed by the assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Ashley comments on playing opposite both Estelle Parsons and Phylicia Rashad in August: Osage County in an interview with Theatremania: &#8220;They are both great actresses, no doubt about it. Estelle was dangerous and brutal; she was like an assassin laying in wait and you always saw her intelligence. Phylicia is different; with her Violet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day: Elizabeth Ashley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1593,1979,1848,1682],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-august-osage-county","tag-elizabeth-ashley","tag-estelle-parsons","tag-phylicia-rashad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}