The actor, 86, tells Michael Segalov about resilience, honing his skills, never drinking or smoking, the impossibility of retirement, losing a child and going running every day
‘I spent my first year learning to act in silence, focusing on character and expression without uttering a word’: Bruce Dern.‘I spent my first year learning to act in silence, focusing on character and expression without uttering a word’: Bruce Dern.The actor, 86, on resilience, honing his skills, the impossibility of retirement, losing a child and going running every daythat got shit done. My grandfather was America’s Secretary of War, previously the governor of Utah.
learning to act in silence, focusing on character and expression without uttering a word. It taught me that acting is the ability to be publicly private. Jack Nicholson calls it a “Dernsy” when actors add material that’s not on the page; Quentin [Tarantino] says on screen I’m always “in the now”.a drink or smoked a cigarette. My parents were what I’d describe as social alcoholics; it put me off. In the 90s, however, I got hooked on Vicodin – a prescription painkiller.
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