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In Reel Time

Marcy’s Playground

By Nikolai Adams there is nothing like cinema. There’s
nothing like the medium itself that
t was an absolute pleasure to transports you.
Imeet and interview Amanda NA: Yeah.
Bearse at CAPE 2022 (Cornwall &
Area Pop Event). A multi-talented AB: And I’ll probably never see
actor and director, she is perhaps Jeff Daniels do that performance
best remembered as troublesome again, yet you can go back and
neighbour Marcy in the long watch Gregory Peck back over and
running television sitcom Married... over and over again.
with Children (she appeared in an NA: For me, my favourite scene is
impressive 259 episodes, while when he leaves the courthouse and
she also sat in the directorial chair everyone stands up in the balcony.
31 times). Yet, two years earlier, It’s very powerful to me.
she appeared in what must have
AB: I just felt chills.
seemed at the time to be a horror
quickie that would come and go. . . NA: Is there a scene that stands
except the annals of cinema history out for you in the film? Or is it just
were not done with Fright Night – Photo Submitted how everything comes together and
it becoming a true cult classic of meshes and flows.
Bearse: Well, gosh, I’m a cinephile, that you actually hear from Scout’s
the 1980s that is still growing its
so probably my favourite genre point of view, and to every young AB: Well that’s a pretty powerful
viewing audience today.
is romantic comedy, and Nancy tomboy girl like myself, she’s iconic one. I’d have to say it’s the whole
After wrapping Married, she Myers films and Nora Ephron and – but it’s a story that still resonates piece, because there’s some just
decided to step behind the camera that sort of thing, but as far as today. incredibly beautiful shots. There’s
more often than not, directing classical films, I’d have to say To NA: Poignant, and I think a tracking shot of Scout or Jem
numerous television series, Kill a Mockingbird. everyone kind of feels like walking in the street, going over to
including The Jamie Foxx Show, NA: With Gregory Peck of somehow Gregory Peck emulates the tree with the voice-over playing,
Dharma & Greg, Sabrina the and all in all it’s just a beautiful
course. what they want their father to be, or
Teenage Witch, Reba, Mad TV, to something along those lines. piece.
name but a few. For the first time AB: Yeah, It’s about the NA: I actually interviewed
in awhile, she is back in front of the characters, and it was Horton Foote AB. Yes, and it’s truly cinematic. Gregory Peck’s grandson [Ethan
camera with last year’s Bros and the who wrote the screenplay and Recently I saw Jeff Daniels do the Peck] and was shocked to find out
upcoming comedy Tapawingo. won the Oscar for the screenplay Aaron Sorkin stage adaptation, – he’s in the new Star Trek tv series,
adaptation. I studied with Sanford which was magnificent, and those
When the conversation turned Meisner and Horton Foote way, are big shoes to fill, but Jeff did it, and he’s never seen it. . . and I said,
to her favourite film, she rather way back, so I sort of knew of him he really did. I felt very fortunate ‘How have you never seen To Kill
promptly highlighted To Kill a for a very long time, but actually, to see that, and Aaron Sorkin did a Mockingbird?’, it doesn’t make
Mockingbird (1962) as her top just this weekend while I was here, something so clever in that he didn’t sense to me. Anyways, I just had to
selection. Keep reading to learn it came on television. tell the story, or repeat it in a linear tell you that. AB: You should have
why it slots in at her number one fashion. He moves the story around. just ended the interview right there,
spot: NA: Oh really! and said ‘go see the movie’.
He didn’t miss any of the elements,
Nikolai Adams: Now onto my AB: I watched it on television, so you’re not missing pieces – ‘like NA: I should a have brought him
favourite question, one of your and it is this beautifully lit black where was that?’, and coming from with me and said, let’s go watch it
favourite films and why? Amanda and white. . . and it’s the narrative theatre, I really valued that. But Continued on page 49