When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing,. . . He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead. '. . . And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth. '.
Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!
I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.