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Форум » Информационный раздел » Информация, интервью » SB's Romantic Stranger, Robert Barr (An Encounter with the Sensuous Roscoe Born)
SB's Romantic Stranger, Robert Barr
Иден_ПарризиДата: Воскресенье, 29.01.2012, 02:17 | Сообщение # 1
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Fade in:Exterior-a rural park in Burbank, California. It sits like an oasis amid sound stages and production offices at NBC Studios.

Early afternoon on a typically smoggy, warm autumn day. Four men in navy blue business suits and red ties are brown-bagging it under a moulting tree. A couple of sub-teen youngsters walk along the dirt path that surrounds a small stream, horsing around. The react to an approaching car, turn to look and gape enviously as a white limo whizzes by.

Enter: Roscoe Born. He portrays Robert Barr on the Emmy-winning series Santa Barbara. He is dressed in tan and cream and looks every bit the distinguished gentleman.

RB: I used to come here the first few weeks on the job and try to learn my lines while I hit whiffle balls with my nine iron. I had my cues on tape, listening with a walkman. It finally got to a point where my golf game was suffering more than my memory was benefiting.

We walked through the park and planted ourselves on two benches.

SOU: Do you think that Robert Barr is a bad guy?

RB: Well, I guess a lot of the audience sees him as a bad guy, but I can't see him that way because I have to play him. I don't think that the breaking up of a marriage, a happy marriage that involves children, is exactly a good thing to do, but he's obsessed with this woman. He believes in destiny and "first love/true love," and that if Eden remembers, she'll regain her truer, richer self.

SOU: What about Eden is different today than ten years ago? How has Robert's feelings for her changed?

RB: Obviously Eden was a girl then and she's a woman now. There's quite a difference between a teenage girl and a woman who's been married, had children and run major companies. I think Robert appreciates how she's grown and I'm sure that has intensified his feelings for her. But, mainly, I think he's still fixated on who she was ten years ago.

SOU: When he thinks of Eden, does he think of a white picket fence and an Irish setter?

RB: He'd have to think about custody of her children and things like that. I don't think he's thought about any of that, to tell the truth. If he thought about the consequences of his action, destroying a marriage and what he's do to the children, then I think he'd be an evil character. What saves him from being a villain is the tunnel vision nature of his obsession.

SOU: Then he's kind of an emotional thinker.

RB: When it comes to Eden, yes. He's so wrapped up in the past he can't really think about the future. He just wants to have her and have it be the way it was then. He wants to go back to that island. I don't think he's seriously thought about what's going to happen if he gets her back. What I have to be careful of in playing the part is not to be judgmental of a character who has less insight and awareness of himself than I have.

SOU: He has the potential to be a real psycho, doesn't he?

RB: If he stopped to look back at what he was doing, there would be no story.

SOU: If the producers were to say to you, "Roscoe, do whatever you like with the character," what would you like to see happen to him?

RB: I'd like to see him grow up. His emotional growth has been stunted. He has gained enormous power and wealth and he's very intelligent, but emotionally he's a teenager. I'd like to see him develop some irony, maybe be a little bitter and sarcastic.

SOU: If he went through all these emotions regarding Eden with a clear head, I think it would make the story more intense.

RB: I would, but then the audience would have no sympathy for him whatsoever. Most of the letters I've got have said they want to hate him but they can't because he's so vulnerable to Eden. It's so clear that he loves her. I think the producers want the audience to be conflicted and ambivalent about Robert. The letters I've got from people have said that what they find confusing and intriguing about him is that on the surface he seems to be this ruthless, cut-throat businessman, but underneath he has this vulnerability that is brought out by Eden.

SOU: You play villains a lot. Does it bother you?

RB: No, not at all. In daytime I'd much rather play the villain, or at least someone who has that side to him. It's always more interesting than playing someone who is a true-blue hero.

SOU: Do you have some sort of acting technique you follow?

RB: I do whatever is required at the moment. I don't think about technique anymore. I thought a lot more about technique ten years ago than I do now. Now I just try and "do it." When you're younger you work harder because you don't know what you're doing and you want to act so much. Once you've done it for awhile, I'm talking about in front of a camera, you realise you don't have to do as much. It becomes more relaxed and it's easier for the audience to put their own slant on the character. I think I do that better now. I illustrate less and I tell less and it lets them make up their own mind about what the character's thinking or feeling.

SOU: What do you think has been your greatest opportunity?

RB: It wasn't the most important thing in my life, and it wasn't the best job I ever had, but the biggest turning point for me was getting Ryan's Hope. I had been acting for 11 years at that point and never made more than $3,000 in a year as an actor. Suddenly to be working everyday and know that people were actually watching my work, to be paid for it, to get feedback on the streets of New York, that was a major validation of all the years I spent up until then. I never had to do anything except act after that. Before I drove a taxi, was a messenger, did all kinds of odd jobs like most people do. Nobody knew who I was until Ryan's Hope in terms of the business. A lot of what happened to me resulted from Ryan's Hope...and I also met my wife on Ryan's Hope.

SOU: You played Joe Novak on the show for over two years...

RB: What I liked about Joe was that he had so much conflict between the Mafia family he grew up in and the family of police officers he married into. I loved that. What redeemed that character was his love for his wife and his mother-in-law, Maeve. Through his love for Siobhan and his association with Maeve, he saw a better way and outgrew a tradition he was born into.

SOU: After Ryan's Hope came One Life to Live.

RB: I played Mitch Laurence. He was very comedic, but he was a horrible villain. He was like a cross between Jim Jones and Jim Bakker. He was very funny. We did that storyline six months before the Jim and Tammy thing came out. I played the role two summers. At the end of my first I had killed somebody and gone to prison. They brought me back the next summer as a phoney, born-again Christian. It was a great part. It was very sacrilegious in one sense, and in another sense it was sort of blowing the whistle on phoney prophets. We got a lot of angry mail. We also got a letter form a minister who had a bible study class that would watch the show everyday. They'd talk about phoney Christians and the dangers of falling into a cult. People appreciated it on a lot of different levels.

SOU: Do you like working better in New York or Los Angeles?

RB: I'd rather not live in either place, but that's where the work is. I would rather live outside a major media centre. I don't know where, but I'd like to get back to a more natural setting.

SOU: You worked with A Martinez in a film called "Powwow Highway."

RB: He was the lead in the movie and I had a small part, so we didn't actually work together but we met. He was great in that movie. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with anywhere. He's excellent on this show and a person of real quality.

SOU: What can you tell us about working with Marcy Walker?

RB: Marcy is also one of the best actors I've worked with and a wonderful person. They are both incredibly generous and committed to what they do. I have tremendous respect for both of them. Half of the time I don't even know what I'm going to do in a scene, and I just look at Marcy and react to what she's doing. I tell Marcy all the time that she gives me 90 percent of my performance, and it's true.

Anyone looking at Born can see his sincerity when talking about his co-stars. It's 1:15 now and time to head back to the set. The gentlemen in their navy blue suits and red ties get up from their table and horse around like the kids by the stream. Work time.

Fade out.


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Репортер-Вы считаете Роберта Барра плохим парнем?
Р -Ну, полагаю, он кажется таким многим зрителям, но я не могу думать о нем так, потому что я играю его. Я считаю,что попытка разрушить брак, счастливый брак, брак,в котором есть дети,- скверный поступок, но Роберт одержим этой женщиной. Он верит в судьбу, первую любовь..
Репортер-Когда он думает об Иден, он строит конкретные планы на будущее,-белый заборчик,ирландский сеттер?
Р-Ему пришлось бы всерьез задуматься над опекой детей и тому подобном. Я не думаю,что он вообще еще размышлял над этим .Если бы он когда -нибудь задумался над последствиями своих действий,- разрушение брака, и что дальше делать с детьми,- тогда я думаю, он был бы злодеем.Так и было бы ,если не тот факт,что он одержим,- и это не дает ему возможности разглядеть что-либо .
Реп-Значит, он руководствуется эмоциями?
Р-Когда дело касается Иден, да. Он настолько погружен в прошлое,что не способен думать о будущем.Он просто хочет,чтобы она была с ним, и чтобы все было как 10 лет назад.Он хочет вернуться на остров. Я не думаю,что он серьезно думал над тем, что будет дальше. Если бы он задумался над тем,что делает, этого сюжета вообще не было бы.
Реп-Если бы сценаристы сказали вам" Роско,делай с этим образом что хочешь", что бы произошло с Робертом?
Р-Я бы хотел,чтобы он повзрослел. Его эмоциональное взросление резко остановилось в самом начале. Он приобрел богатство и власть, он очень умен, но он эмоциональный подросток.
Конец
Р-Я был очень тронут,когда понял,что люди , пережившие в своей жизни горе,потерю и возрождение, переносят свой опыт на историю Роберта, на то как он пытается справиться и справляется с аналогичными ситуциями.


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