Watch Anne Heche as Twins on Soap That Earned Her an Emmy: I Wear the Work I Did on ‘Another World’ as a ‘Badge of Honor’ (Video)
thewrap.comauditioned twice for “Another World” and wasn’t told until later why.“Oh lordie, I did not,” she said when Connick asked if she knew the soap role was playing twins. “I was asked to audition twice, and then when I got hired, he said, ‘I asked you to audition twice because you’re gonna play twins.’”And she played those twins so convincingly that she had some fans believing she was only playing one of them.“Their reactions were kind of schizophrenic because I played twins and nobody believes that I was the same person playing the twins,” she recalled in a 1998 interview with Take2MarkTV. “So some people just hated me and some people really loved me, which was so funny that I fooled them.
And then some of them wouldn’t believe me when I actually said it was the same person and they wanted to figure out which twin I was.”“I would do 60 pages of dialogue a day between the two of them,” Heche told Michael Fairman of her time on “Another World.” “That really trained me.
That has benefited me more than anything I could possibly say. I wear it with a badge of honor. The work that I did on ‘Another World’ trained me for every single thing that I do, from spontaneity to craft to memorization to camera work to a split screen, which we did with Vicky and Marley which is one of the first times it was done.
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