{"id":268608,"date":"2025-11-07T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:41:13","slug":"amadeus-was-an-early-education-for-cynthia-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268608\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amadeus\u2019 Was an Early Education for Cynthia Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Long before Cynthia Nixon wore a pantsuit on Sex and the City<\/a> and shyly asserted her authority as a downtrodden sister on The Gilded Age<\/a>, she was a nervous German maid willing to do anything for a bite of good pastry. You may not immediately remember her presence, but when Nixon was 16, she had a crucial role in the 1984 film Amadeus playing Lorl, a young woman whom F. Murray Abraham\u2019s Salieri hires to spy upon his bitter rival, Mozart. In exchange for food and money, Lorl passes along information about Mozart and is frightened by his descent into mania, but in a touching moment at the end of the film, she still shows up at his funeral.<\/p>\n

The role wasn\u2019t Nixon\u2019s first film performance. As a teen actor, she had appeared in the summer-camp movie Little Darlings, and she worked on Broadway in plays such as The Philadelphia Story. (She\u2019ll be back there again later this fall in Marjorie Prime.) But Amadeus \u2014 based on a play that was a hit on the West End and Broadway and adapted by the Czech director Milo\u0161 Forman \u2014 was a major event, and Nixon knew it would be big as she went through several auditions for her role. Yet she still had the gumption to insist that, if she were offered the part, the producers would fly her back and forth between Prague, where Amadeus filmed, and New York City, where she attended the competitive Hunter College High School, so she wouldn\u2019t miss too much schoolwork.<\/p>\n

Soon, Nixon found herself alone behind the Iron Curtain working with a great director on a project that would go on to win Best Picture. As she describes it in an episode of our series\u00a0Role Call<\/a>, she learned an immense amount on the shoot, from both Forman as a director and an entirely different kind of social structure from the one she grew up with. \u201cWe knew there were spies from the government all around,\u201d she remembers. \u201cPeople would come up to you, strike up a conversation at the bar, and go, \u2018What do you think of the Czech government?\u2019 I was in tenth or 11th grade. I didn\u2019t think anything about the Czech government!\u201d<\/p>\n


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