“It did end up in a wrestling match,” the actress says.
Sometimes creative disagreements lead to literally having your wig snatched.
“It was beautiful, long, brown, kind of curly hair.
Marcia Gay Harden in 2024.Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Because I had the idea of this pioneer woman, and it was a character I was playing.
And George said, ‘We can’t see you.'”
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Harden thought that obscuring herself would somehow help with maintaining the illusion of her character.
Marcia Gay Harden at the premiere of ‘Angels in America’ in 1993.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
“I said, ‘Well, you don’t want to f—ing see me.
You want to see her.
And the hair is making you see her.
And I am not taking it off.
I am not taking it off,'” she remembered.
“I had to perform one night with that in my brain.
But I kept it on.”
The conflict persisted across multiple performances of the seminal play.
“The next night, ‘You have to take it off.
We cannot see you,'” she recalled Wolfe repeating.
“And it did end up in a wrestling match and I was sobbing.
He was pulling it and I was pulling it and I was sobbing.
‘No, you might’t have it.'”
Harden admitted that she probably threw a fit during the fight.
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The actress was afraid to play her character without the wig.
The actress said that she tried out for the two-part play in a vulnerable emotional state.
“And I was a mess.
Cut to: I’m in an audition forAngels in America.
So I go into there, one of those little stupid-ass audition rooms.
Harden believes that her genuine agony helped her secure the role.
“It wasn’t the drugs.
The drugs were to get her out of pain.
Listen to the full conversation between Harden andJesse Tyler Fergusonabove.
