Interview - 'rabbit hole' actors jeff barth '14 and grace szczepkowski '15

I feel like a good way to approach a role like this is from it's from a good place and not from a somber place like like from a good place. This is a very hard thing that happened to my character Becca but it's very truthful as well it happens to a lot of people so it's nice because I get to explore that and learn what people go through when they lose a child and not that I could ever know but it's part of the world and lot of people are walking around having this loss in them so it's been a really interesting and really challenging to kinda take that on. It's a family everyone has really built these characters up to feel like real people and when you've got that it's so much easier to get into it and explore more naturalistic approach to acting so I really I really think these guys for for helping me do that. We actually have a great drama person working at our university Jonathan Shandell and he sent us a lot of information about parents who have lost children and some great excerpts from books which is really difficult to read but very helpful and it was it was interesting how they would be reading from her quotes from parents and there would literally be lines from the play like this is what Becca feels in Act 1 Scene 2 this is she actually says these things so that with tough to read I just that my bed and cried and so there is that aspect of it and also the aspect of the the training that I've gotten here through the acting program we focus a lot on punching out the verbs in our sentences and what is the actual meaning behind the things that we're saying and why are we saying those things in how do we feel about those things and so it's a lot and I'm still doing all that work it's a lot of work and it's one thing to you have to do the work and then you have to make that work a part of your performance and express it it's been really hard but it's getting there