As An Actor, It Made Me Realize A Really Important Lesson. I Didn't Have To Put Any Spin On The Ball As Rita [in Dexter]. All I Had To Do Was Speak. And There Was Such Simplicity In That As An Actor. With Debra, I Was Trying To Put A Square Peg Into A Round Hole, And It Just Didn't Work, But In My Mind, Because I Had To Work So Hard On It, I Was, Like, "oh, This Is Acting!" But That's Not Acting.

-Julie Benz

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As An Actor, It Made Me Realize

Julie Benz

As An Actor, It Made Me Realize A Really Important Lesson. I Didn't Have To Put Any Spin On The Ball As Rita [in Dexter]. All I Had To Do Was Speak. And There Was Such Simplicity In That As An Actor. With Debra, I Was Trying To Put A Square Peg Into A Round Hole, And It Just Didn't Work, But In My Mind, Because I Had To Work So Hard On It, I Was, Like, "oh, This Is Acting!" But That's Not Acting.

Topic

Squares

Simplicity

Mind

I Went In For An Audition [for As Good As It Gets], But The Audition Was With James L. Brooks. I Was The First Girl In That Morning, And There Was A Whole Waiting Room Of Girls Waiting To Read For It. So I Did My Audition, And He Asked Me To Step Outside. So I Stepped Outside, And When He Asked Me To Come Back In, He Looked At Me, And He Said, "well, I'm Very Excited To Work With You On Set." And I Was, Like, "what?" I Thought It Was A Hollywood Blow-off.

Girl

Morning

Blow