Imagining the Madoff within us

An Interview with Rick Foucheux

The actor’s stock-in-trade is his ability to empathize with the character he plays, in order to make that character recognizably human, with clear motivations. The actor must be nonjudgmental: “if you comment, and judge your character, you’re not coming at it the right way,” 4-time Helen Hayes Laureate Holly Twyford said in an interview in Asides Magazine. So how do you empathize with a man who has stolen a fortune estimated at $65 billion, mostly from people who had entrusted them with their pensions? [Read more...]