Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFaith Hill will never forget one of her earliest auditions.She read for director Anthony Minghella for 2003’s “Cold Mountain” for the role that went to Natalie Portman. “I read, I believe, the rape scene and another one.
It was intense,” Hills tells me on the new episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I had been on a few readings, but nothing like that.”Not that she didn’t do her homework beforehand.“I worked my tail off to be prepared for that,” Hills said. “Because for me, personally, I thought I have got to prove myself… This is serious work.
It is a craft that needs to be respected.”While rejection is never easy, Minghella softened the blow by encouraging her to continue to pursue acting. “He sent me the most incredible letter after the reading,” she revealed. “It was almost three pages long, handwritten.” Yes, she still has the letter.Another role that Hill came close to doing was on Broadway.
She says she was asked to play Mary Poppins in a production of the musical many years ago but her schedule prevented it from happening.“Everyone calls me Mary Poppins.
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