So sorry to hear of Sally Kirkland’s passing. She starred in my first play THE POWDER ROOM https://t.co/IFhKs0Q3oR It was such a coup to have an actress of her caliber get behind my work. She gave everything to the part. I recall meeting with her at the Sliver Spoon in West Hollywood to discuss her coming on board. Her Actors’s Studio mentor Shelly Winters sat with us. That was enough for our star struck director. So began a crazy odyssey. She inhabited the role of The Instructor guiding a room full of women on what was called the Woman’s Journey against a man wanting to attend her class. An early warning about the “Safe Space” madness that has consumed education and society these days. Her performance was super-charged, passionate, unforgettable, and brilliant. A few years later when one of the actresses in the play, Lana Clarkson, was murdered by Phil Spector, she was quick to loudly defend and champion her as a great actress against Spector’s fierce publicity machine. That’s who she was. Unstoppable and generous to a fault, particularly to fellow artists. Also an original when it came to promotion. She invited Sandra Bullock who brought her then boyfriend Matthew McConaughey to the show. Just as they arrived, she appeared and the paparazzi she’d invited all starting shooting them together. She taught me how you really have to work publicity. In this, she was arguably one of the first true social media stars. Before anyone did it, she self promoted her way to an Oscar Best Actress nomination for a small film called Anna. From my stand point, she was and is the Best Actress. Thank you, Sally.
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