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Toni Collette Talks Move Into Producing, Drew Barrymore Friendship & Learning To Let Go Of Characters: “I Can’t Pretend, I Have To Feel Things” – Qumra
Toni Collette Talks Move Into Producing; Drew Barrymore Friendship and Letting Go Of Characters: "I Can't Pretend, I Have To Feel Things Too." in Doha
Actress Toni Collette discussed her journey from a working-class neighborhood in northwest Sydney to Hollywood star in a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator event on Friday. Looking back on her early career, Collette recalled how she had dropped out of Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art NIDA after being offered the part of Sonya in a 1992 stage production of Uncle Vanya by Neil Armfield. Collette said this immersive technique has its downside, describing how she had found it hard to shake the emotions connected to her role in the 2015 drama Miss You Already, in which she stars as a women diagnosed with cancer, opposite Drew Barrymore as her character’s best friend.
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