Marisa Tomei rather likes feeling “terribly nervous” before stepping out on the stage.
The Oscar-winning actress, who is starring in the off-Broadway play Babe, believes these nerves wait on gasoline her performances every night.
“I was starting to get a little spooked, because I’ve never had stage fright,” the Spider-Man: Homecoming actress told Elle. “I get terribly nervous, but that’s also part of why I like it. I like to be shaking in my boots to have to really, really, really dig down deep.”
Nonetheless, the What Ladies Need actress illustrious that she used to be beginning to experience a “different kind of fear”, adding “(I felt like) I got to step on this stage – now.”
Marisa, 60, went on to believe on her return to The Gentle Group, an off-Broadway theatre firm in Gentle York Metropolis.
“To come back to The New Group, where Scott (Elliott, director) has kept this off-Broadway theatre company going for 30 years, it does feel like a home to me,” she told the e-newsletter. “I love small houses. I’ve been on Broadway for about five times now, and it’s a very special kind of thrill, but being in a small theatre is what I really love.”
Marisa plays Abby in the off-Broadway production of Babe, which opened at The Pershing Square Signature Middle in boring November. It is going to shut on 22 December.
