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Methods In Their Madness

December 11, 2008 in Celebrity

A certain breed of actor – stage or screen – are known for the extremes they go to in searching for the key to characterisation, to get into the heart of the role they are playing. Daniel Hoevels, appearing in Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart at Vienna’s Burgtheater, slit his own throat with a real knife in the final scene of the play. He didn’t mean to.

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