the Broadway stage’s most beloved classic stories, she did the unthinkable for a young actress with singing and acting chops carved on that very same platform.
She said no.With only a few hours’ time to prep for the impromptu audition, Debose chose to flat out tell the director that she would not read lines for the role.
Where many actresses would have done anything a director of that caliber asked for a sliver of a chance at a role in one of his films, she stood firm in her decision to only do what she could master in the moment. “In my experience, ten-plus years in the Broadway world specifically, if I wanted to be taken seriously as an actress, I couldn’t go in and half-ass anything,” Debose said.
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