![]() ![]() Each woman’s pain is vivid in its specificity, and so convincing that it’s easy to forgive the sequence’s hopelessly trite final moments: “Baby, he’s not going to hurt you again,” Vicky promises a wailing Marley as the soundtrack thrums ominously. Vicky coaxes the words from her sister and then vows to get revenge. Marley’s throat tightens as she tries to confess what happened. ![]() In a scene from late 1990, Marley tearfully tells Vicky that her partner, Jake, has raped her. The show, set in the fictional Bay City, gave Heche’s Vicky and Marley many screen partners in the form of lovers and family members, but Heche was rarely more electric than when playing against herself. With her cornflower-blue eyes and lanky carriage, she deftly navigated the implausibilities inherent to the soap genre (one story line involves Vicky impersonating Marley during the latter’s trial for attempted murder), and succeeded in infusing each sister with her own separate soul. But Heche did not exaggerate either of these defining traits, instead using subtle inflections to distinguish the two. Vicky was a headstrong tornado of a girl, Marley an avatar of virtue. Heche-who died on Sunday, at the age of fifty-three, after suffering a brain injury during a car crash, in Los Angeles-at first doubted her ability to make the two characters feel distinct. “Vicky’s the bad one,” he said to her, Heche recalled in “ Call Me Crazy,” her 2001 autobiography. Now, at a television studio in Brooklyn, the producer who’d hired her explained the nature of the assignment. A green talent plucked fresh from the Midwest, she’d previously acted in dinner-theatre and high-school drama productions. ![]() It was the day after her high-school graduation. When a seventeen-year-old Anne Heche first arrived on the set of the NBC daytime soap opera “Another World,” in 1987, she wasn’t aware that she’d be playing twins. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |