Don’t kid Laurence Lau about the hair he wears in the current national tour of the Tony Award-winning August: Osage County. Although he’s in his fifties, Lau is eternally young looking, and it was united that the hair would both add to his character’s appearance and geezerhood him at the same time. “It variety of fits Steve Heidebrecht to hit a mustache,” Lau explained recently. “Kind of looks same a man stuck in the 70’s.” Unfortunately, Lau laughed, he had to keep it when he fresh filmed his scenes for All My Children’s fortieth anniversary show. The “’stache”, as he calls it, is not exactly what upstanding Greg Nelson, the character he played in the soap opera’s golden epoch of the mid-80s, would ever wear.In histrion Letts’ poem dysfunctional kinsfolk play, August: Osage County, the lensman kinsfolk converges on the deteriorating kinsfolk home when the man disappears, leaving behind his cancer-stricken, pill-popping spouse Violet. Esteemed actress Estelle sociologist (an accolade winner for Bonnie and Clyde) plays the obscenely erosive Violet, but it can be argued that Lau’s homopteran Steve drives the most disturbing subplot. Steve is junior daughter Karen’s fiancé, and he strikes up a wildly incongruous relationship with Karen’s fourteen year-old niece. If you hit exclusive seen Letts’ more surreal or cartoonish plays same Bug or Killer Joe, you’ll occurrence at how effortlessly Letts plunges into the withering hunch of a fairly typical upper region class family, and in the impact depicts the disintegration of America’s society as well.
Lau has mostly been known for his work on period dramas same All My Children, Another World, One Life to Live, and most recently, As the World Turns. It’s sad news that CBS has canceled As the World Turns, which premiered fifty-three years ago. The exhibit features digit of the most high profile merry characters on period TV, Evangelist (Van Hansis) and patriarch (Jake Silbermann).
Laurence Lau added whatever welcome drama when he joined the exhibit as Brian Wheatley, a non-profit director who ended up marrying Luke’s grandmother, Lucinda Walsh (Elizabeth Hubbard). He status Evangelist by urging him to hide his sexual orientation for the good of Luke’s non-profit, and later shocked Evangelist by kissing him. poet was unnatural to face that he was gay, breaking Lucinda’s heart and dynamical him to yield town.
Laurence Lau added whatever welcome drama when he joined the exhibit as Brian Wheatley, a non-profit director who ended up marrying Luke’s grandmother, Lucinda Walsh (Elizabeth Hubbard). He status Evangelist by urging him to hide his sexual orientation for the good of Luke’s non-profit, and later shocked Evangelist by kissing him. poet was unnatural to face that he was gay, breaking Lucinda’s heart and dynamical him to yield town.
Lau’s action overturned a threesome period role into a more Byzantine one that ran for over seven months. “I was so proud to be asked to take on this storyline,” Lau explained. He and Hubbard felt that Brian should rattling fall in love with Lucinda, exclusive to discover that he couldn’t resist his feelings for her grandson. “Thereby, what would prove would be a actual tragedy for her and for Brian, to discover that his whole chronicle had been one daylong travelling of denial, painful denial, and what it cost him and what it cost her. The writers kept it going and the conference was rattling responding.At the end, they treated the news with lots of respect. They had a wonderful resolve where Brian broke down in tears, crying and shouting, 'I’m gay! I’m gay! Is that what you want to hear?' He was at the point where he wanted to modify it every because he was so torn apart. It was impinging and sorrowful to have that moment.”
Later, they brought him back for a final resolution Lau enjoyed. “He came back and he was easy in his own skin for the prototypal instance in his life. The people that he’d perceive so badly were accepting of him. I intellection that was great to play and I got these wonderful letters from crossways the land from men who had spent years of their lives in similar circumstances. Many of the letters were sorrowful and bonny in expressing how much they appreciated that story.” Lau additional modestly, “I meet crosspiece the words. I give a lot of credit to shaper Chris Goutman and the writers. I was very honored to be a part of it.”
On the other hand, his performance as the amoral Steve Heidebrecht is sure to land him a whole new set of fans. “The yawl perv. That’s my affectionate name for him,” Lau joked. He rattling enjoyed activity against type, and delving into Steve’s motivations. “Steve doesn’t rattling think,” he explained. “He doesn’t modify realize what he’s up to. He skips along the surface of chronicle without rattling engaging the seriousness of the consequences of his actions. In that sense, it might be modify scarier to confront somebody who’s unaware of their own actions. In a way, he kind of disarms the conference in the beginning. It’s more of a shocker when grouping rattling grasp, “My god, this guy’s a pedophile.” It’s fun to endeavor him with an innocent charm and then underneath that is a very destructive person.”
Lau is thrilled to be part of histrion Lett’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, and marveled that he has “the best centre in the house” at the big party table scene in Act II, where Parson’s rattling lets loose. “I’m hunting correct across the dining room table and she knocks me discover every night. The credibility of the kinsfolk drama — all the secrets that become pouring discover of the dysfunctional large family,” is what makes August: Osage County so special. “The anger and the rage and the pain and the betrayal and the lies; ultimately, the tragedy of this disintegrating kinsfolk — I think a aggregation of grouping can colligate to that,” he explained, adding that they ever intend standing ovations. “It touches grouping in rattling unfathomable ways. The intellectual of histrion Letts is that he institute humor throughout the entire endeavor that makes it doable to experience this tragedy. If there was no humor, you couldn’t endure it. There’s all this from-the-gut laughter that comes discover of the characters and the situations. There’s no gimmick laughter.”
Lau is thrilled to be part of histrion Lett’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, and marveled that he has “the best centre in the house” at the big party table scene in Act II, where Parson’s rattling lets loose. “I’m hunting correct across the dining room table and she knocks me discover every night. The credibility of the kinsfolk drama — all the secrets that become pouring discover of the dysfunctional large family,” is what makes August: Osage County so special. “The anger and the rage and the pain and the betrayal and the lies; ultimately, the tragedy of this disintegrating kinsfolk — I think a aggregation of grouping can colligate to that,” he explained, adding that they ever intend standing ovations. “It touches grouping in rattling unfathomable ways. The intellectual of histrion Letts is that he institute humor throughout the entire endeavor that makes it doable to experience this tragedy. If there was no humor, you couldn’t endure it. There’s all this from-the-gut laughter that comes discover of the characters and the situations. There’s no gimmick laughter.”
Lau had just returned from filming the 40th Anniversary episode of All My Children, which affectedness January 5, the same day he opens in August: Dhegiha County in Tempe. He filmed three scenes that set up flashbacks, and it took him backwards to the days when he and Kim Delaney were the most favourite couple on daytime TV. “It was like Romeo and Juliet. We were from opposite sides of the tracks. I had no idea it was going to verify soured like a rocket. I had a enthusiastic time, until they blew Jenny up on a Jet-ski,” he joked.
As for forthcoming projects, Lau would love to work with Letts and administrator Annie Shapiro again, and hopes to endeavor whatever more hammy roles. “I’ve played a nice guy a lot.” He stopped short of predicting his forthcoming projects. “You know what they say, 'You hear God laughing when you start making plans.' We’ll wager what happens.”
August: Dhegiha County will endeavor Tempe's Gammage Auditorium from Janury 5 to 10. For more information on the tour, including forthcoming dates and locations, meet the show's official website.
Interview by Neil Cohen, doc flick critic of Movie Dearest and Phoenix's Echo Magazine.
As for forthcoming projects, Lau would love to work with Letts and administrator Annie Shapiro again, and hopes to endeavor whatever more hammy roles. “I’ve played a nice guy a lot.” He stopped short of predicting his forthcoming projects. “You know what they say, 'You hear God laughing when you start making plans.' We’ll wager what happens.”
August: Dhegiha County will endeavor Tempe's Gammage Auditorium from Janury 5 to 10. For more information on the tour, including forthcoming dates and locations, meet the show's official website.
Interview by Neil Cohen, doc flick critic of Movie Dearest and Phoenix's Echo Magazine.
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