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Matilda

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3. When Joanne Woodward was interviewed for I.T.A.S.,
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:58 AM
Oct 2012

she was discussing the filming of "Picnic", when she was in love with Paul Newman and he was trying to get a divorce from his first wife, who was making things difficult. Because of her Method training, she was having to draw on her emotions at a time when she really needed to control them, and it was causing her much suffering.

She said she wished then that she'd been British-trained, so she would just be able to draw on her technique and get on with it.

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