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Mira Sorvino
This is an iHeart podcast guaranteed human
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Mira Sorvino
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Mira Sorvino
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
hi everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress. Welcome back to Part two with the incredible Mira Sorvino. Friends, you know, while, while I wait for her to get here, I'm, I'm a little early shock to no one who knows me. I really was thinking after the beginning portion of our conversation hearing her story, how cool it is that so many of us who wind up doing this, you know, crazy job being performers in the circuits, if you will, wind up finding our way to telling other people's stories by experiencing people's lives, you know, by, by being impacted by a historical event or a place, you know, where you get to know a whole new reality. She did studying in China. I think about how following my passion for history and world events led me into doing the play that changed my life as a senior in high school. Denial, a play centering on rights of people's free speech and some of the historical atrocities from World War II and the modern day ACLU. And all of these things that kind of came to a head in, in such a complicated fashion and made every character in the play have to examine what they believe and why and, and who they were going to stand up for. And it's crazy to think about this as an Adult who spends so much of my time in advocacy, because I realize how early in my exploration of what I wanted my career to be, the advocacy and the storytelling were so intertwined. And to hear that from her in her own way, I don't know, it gives me some sort of a. Of a kismet or a shared something even deeper than, well, we both tell stories or we're both actors. You know, it. It really reminds me of, I guess, the specialness under all of it. And, yeah, I realized how cool that was. She. She made me think about some things I hadn't thought about in a while. So I wanted to share that with you all just for a little bit deeper context on. Yeah, on why I love and feel so lucky to be a storyteller. So cool that someone I've literally looked up to for my whole career has a version of that story, too. Okay, I'm gonna stop geeking out about this and bring her back into the interview room, because I think I'm too bashful to tell this part of the story to her face. But she'll hear the episode one of these days. All right, let's dive back in with Mir. We talked about this a little bit in the last episode, but when you won your Academy Award for Mighty Aphrodite, you said something that really sticks with me, that you wanted to be an actor to make people see something about the human spirit.
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Mira Sorvino
You know, my dad did do a movie called Dummy when I was a kid. That was really my inspiration for wanting to be an actor. So he played a deaf lawyer who was defending a deaf mute young man, played by levar Burton, who had been accused of rape and murder. And it was based on a real person. And dad did so much research on deaf speech, and he worked with these kids at the Lexington School for the Deaf for three weeks, and he developed three different stages of deaf speech. And then he had the opportunity to go and interview the real Lowell Myers, the real lawyer. And he realized he had a different voice than he would have imagined. Like his. The tone of his voice was lower, so he brought his voice down like an octave. And then, you know, the movie is very heartbreaking because it's sort of how the social justice, how the justice system treats marginalized people, the criminal justice system. And LeVar Burton just does an incredible job as this young man who is really abused by the system. And dad gave such a performance that was so moving. And as the story progressed, 20 years into it, he could barely speak, understandably, because he had gone profoundly deaf at 12 and over the years, lost all the consonants and the plosives, and it just sounded more and more distorted. And yet he gives this, like, stunning summation speech in the courtroom. And. And I was just so in awe of it, and I was like, there's something noble about this craft. There's something. When it's at its best, it can combine art and truth telling in a way that is meaningful to a larger society. It can always be meaningful on the human level. Like, you can see yourself in the characters being portrayed or in the story. But sometimes when it has bigger themes and it's really beautifully articulated and executed, you can have an effect that might go beyond that moment when people are watching.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
Yeah. And it takes these stories, you know, these. These people and their journeys out of the bucket of ideas, and it makes them real to us in such a way, you know, someone who watches that film is going to be affected in a way that just reading an article about how marginalized people are mistreated in the justice system, it isn't. Isn't going to happen.
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Mira Sorvino
Their heart's not going to break. Yeah, their heart's not going to break. And I think both dad and Levar put their out there for everybody to see. And I think when you're authentically acting, you know, I. I know that there is a British philosophy that if you cry, the audience won't, but I kind of feel the opposite is true, that when you're really feeling something truly inside yourself and you're living truthfully under imaginary circumstances, but your own heart is really broken or vulnerable or whatever, that the instinct in people for empathy clicks in, and they. They are autonomously, like, moved by you because they're seeing another being in pain, you know, and they. They connect, that it's real. And I think when you're using the artifice of, like, a certain hand gesture and a certain, you know, way of saying a line and. And faking tears and using, like, you know, the plovers with the glycerin tears, which I have never done because my father was like, the day I use the glycerin tears is the day I walk out of the business. And he was so adamant about it that I cannot.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
Your character, Sandra, you lovingly call her Sandy in your latest movie signing. Tony Raymond has a lot of spirit, I'd say a lot of gumption. How much of her was on the page and made you immediately want to say yes? And what did you decide to bring into her as you were workshopping your prep for this movie?
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Mira Sorvino
Yeah, I mean, I think Sandy is. A lot of it was on the page, but I think I. I turned it up to 11. You know, I saw an opportunity in her to be very mercurial, to go from, you know, extreme defiance to sort of contemplative talk with the coach when she's saying, I just want what's best for my boy. And then fueled by the extra vodka that she goes to get in the kitchen, then all of a sudden she's trying to seduce him on the kitchen table in this wild way as though she's like in an 80s hair metal car video, like climbing on the table and coming, you know, sprinkling herself with like season. It's like white snake. It's crazy, right? And so I just had so much fun with that. I really love playing these characters that have both heart and like a little bit of insanity to their behavior. Like, they're just a little bit of like, whatever they think comes out. There's no socialization that stops them.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
No filter.
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Mira Sorvino
Yeah, yeah. I mean, later there is a moment where she's like, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tried to stoose you. That really would have ruined our friendship. Wouldn't it have? And then she's like, also, you know, like, I love Otis. You know, I couldn't really be with anybody else. So after the fact, after she's come down out of her sort of impulse driven moment, then she can think about it. But at the time, she's like, she is not regulated. She is not someone who's been through therapy, brings herself down and takes a timeout and takes some deep breaths and recognizes and speaks in, you know, like, eye phrases. No, she's just, you know, out for blood, you know, because she gets triggered, I think, into feeling like she's being judged or thought stupid. Like, because this. These coaches come out here and they're trying to flip some dollars in front of them and be like, we're gonna take care of your boy. But they're just playing them. And so she and Otis start playing the coaches instead, you know, and they're just. She's just like, we're not stupid, and don't you think we are? But, you know, so. So when she gets that sort of judgment from them, like, like they don't matter. Like, they're like, we're not real. You know, to them we're insignificant. Only our son is important because of his talent. You know, just something ignites and she's just very, you know, And I think some of what happens once I've done the prep once. I worked on the accent. Obviously, I'm not from the south, so I worked very hard, and the director would correct me when I would make little mistakes, and we'd do it again and do it again. But, you know, he found me some women to base the voice off of, and I picked the one that I felt was closest to the character, but half of it is unconscious. I feel like in comedy like that, where you're also improving, and I love improving.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
That was gonna be my question.
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Mira Sorvino
Yeah. Some of it is improv. Yeah. As is some of Mighty Aphrodite, as is some of Remy and Michelle, as is, you know, a lot of comedy stuff that I've done. I did this wonderful movie by Nancy Savoca called Union Square that no one has seen. And I really hope it gets like a life on streaming at some point, but it was very improv y. All my best comedy has improv in it. And. And I think in those improv moments, like, your subconscious is blurting out whatever is the character in that moment, and if you've made the character intrinsically funny, then that's going to be funny. You know, she's going to say something bizarro or like. Like what? Yeah, so. But. But it's not like I'm planning it like, once in a while, like, the night before, like, I'll be like, this is missing something here. And so I'll write some lines and then I'll show them to the director. Next day, it's like, is it okay, add this here or swap this out here? I promise I won't make the scene too long, but could I just try this? And, you know, usually they'll say yes, and then usually some part of that, not all of it, but some part of it ends up, yeah, yeah.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
Oh, that's so much fun. I was wondering, because someone who is so, as you said, mercurial or reactive screams an improv opportunity to me. So I was wondering how much of that you got to do?
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Mira Sorvino
Yeah.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
You know, you brought up Romeo, Michelle, which, if I was not on a zoom screen, I'd be bowing down. It's such a cultural touchstone. I know what it is for me sentimentally and in my memories with my friends, it is a version of that for so many people. I'm really curious. For you, it looked like the most fun movie to make. And I know recently you went to a fan screening and a Q and A. Was it such a trip to watch all these people watch it and get to re. Experience it from from this stage of your life.
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Ryan Reynolds
Yeah.
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Mira Sorvino
I mean, it's evergreen, you know, like Robin Schiff and I did a screening of it a couple years ago and I think it was Hollywood forever. I think it was. It.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
No.
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Mira Sorvino
Where was it? It was. It was sin.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
Yes, in Espia.
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Mira Sorvino
Yes, in Espia.
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Mira Sorvino
And this part though was in a theater. This was not outside. So it was in a theater. And we walk on the stage and we got like a five minute standing ovation like Robin the writer and myself. And I was like, this is what it feels like to be a rock star. Like, what is happening? Like, I am not Eddie Vedder. I'm not, you know, like, what is happening? And it was like, I did not. You know, I'm continuously amazed at how much this movie has meant to people in their lives. And, you know, I was at a, like a comic con and somebody had me sign their arm as Romy. And then they came back half an hour later with it, like bleeding. Yeah. Tattooed. And I was like, oh my gosh. Oh my God. A lot of people have Remy Michelle tattoos and it's pretty crazy. Yeah. And a lot of people do the dance in their wedding. Like they literally, weirdly, at their own wedding, they have a third party. The Alan coming or the Romy or the Michelle, and they all do the dance.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
Like, it's so great.
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Mira Sorvino
Yeah. Yeah.
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Sophia (Podcast Host)
You are such a joy and I just am so thrilled about this for our friends at home. Obviously, I know you'll be rewatching Romy and Michelle this week, but make sure you also tune in to see signing Tony Raymond. It's available now on Amazon prime and Apple tv. So you have multiple avenues upon which you can watch Mira's Brilliance. The movies just so fantastic and as are you. Thank you for coming today.
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Mira Sorvino
Thank you, Sophia. This was a joy. Thank you so much.
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