“I know I’m going to fall, and I just kind of find my way to the floor. I’m bathed in sweat. And I hear my cue! So I just did my monologue from the floor.” Steppenwolf Theater co-founder Terry Kinney talks to Nina_Metz for MyWorstMoment.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Terry Kinney directs “Another Marriage” at Steppenwolf Theatre, where he is a founding member. He talks about a worst moment in his career.
Though he started as a theater actor, Kinney works primarily in TV and film these days. There’s a reason for that. “My worst moment is the moment that took me off of the stage forever.”“I always was a nervous actor. Not nervous to perform so much as nearly OCD about being precise. The idea of making a mistake live, of saying the wrong word, of something happening is horrifying for most actors. And for me, it was untenable.
“Here’s the ‘Buried Child’ story: We were on Broadway and I played this guy who had a dead baby. And I had a 6-month-old baby. My wife at the time was in San Francisco with the baby, so I was without them, but I had the dogs. On two-show days, I would ride my bike home furiously to walk and feed the dogs. So this was a two-show day. It was about 100 degrees outside. I get back and drank a venti Starbucks to get ready for the second show. No food. And I go on.
“But there’s one more scene I have to do and that’s carry the dead baby on stage. And to do that, I get into a tub of mud backstage and I put it all over myself, as if I’ve been down in the mud digging. So I do that and I’m waiting backstage. And the stage manager points at me like ‘Go!’ and I took a step toward the stage and it was as if I was walking into the heat of a blazing fire and I just went: Nope. No. And I looked at her and she said, ‘Go!’ And I said, ‘No. I can’t.
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