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![]() “She’s wired in such a fundamentally different way than I’m wired that I couldn’t just slip casually into her.” “I didn’t want to do an impression,” said Danes, who met with Grandin, studied her books and worked extensively with a dialect coach and choreographer to shape her performance. Portraying the animal behavior scientist who is a hero in the autism community was her most demanding role to date, the actress said, one that required intense research and practice. Not OK, not appropriate!”īut it’s not surprising that Grandin is lodged in Danes’ muscle memory. “It’s like you go to the South and start speaking like people there. “It was very embarrassing,” Danes said, shaking her head at the recollection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She became so immersed in “Temple-speak,” as she put it, that when she saw Grandin recently in Los Angeles to promote the film, “I slipped immediately back in Temple mode,” the actress admitted. To capture the unique inflections of Temple Grandin, an autistic pioneer whose life is the subject of a new HBO film, Claire Danes spent weeks listening to recordings of Grandin on her iPod, practicing her gruff abruptness. ![]()
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