And you’ll get to meet her because she videotaped two of her answers. I’ve often wondered how an actor goes about embodying a character and developing a “voice.” Finally, I had someone I could ask. Thus began a correspondence with Tara that has evolved into many exchanges which I’d like to share with you. I had been watching “the voice of TCOL” play Viola Liuzzo, the white Civil Rights activist who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan! As the credits rolled at the end of the movie Selma, the name Tara Ochs popped out from the screen. Then last month something magical happened. Immediately upon hearing the audio recording of The Conditions of Love, I became smitten with the voice of Tara Ochs, who so effortlessly modulated her reading to give different expression to each character. I hear them before I know who they are and what stories they want to tell me. As a writer I’m preoccupied by “voice” - the diction, syntax, and emotional registers of my characters.
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