Interview with Jeff McMahan – One Good Marriage
Jeff will be starring as Stewart in One Good Marriage, Fighting Chance’s next show in our 2009/2010 season! Here’s a couple questions we asked to help you get to know him!
Tell us a bit about your character in One Good Marriage
He’s a librarian. Glencoe District’s High school librarian. He’s gone through a very difficult trauma with his new wife and he’s doing his best to keep it all together. He’s also very handsome. It doesn’t say it in the script but I think I’ll play him very handsome.
What is it about acting that you like so much?
I like acting because it’s more simple than life. I don’t have to think about what I have to say or where to stand in a room. Plus I like being told by someone while rehearsing “that’s not very good, do something different”. In real life it upsets me to hear that.
Do you have a dream role?
My dream role is to Play Hotspur in Henry the 4th part 1 or Tom in the Glass Menagerie.
If you didn’t act, what would you do instead?
If I didn’t act I’ve always had this idea about being a police detective. It appeals to me because it seems that police aren’t ever afraid to talk back to their superior officers. I could solve important murders and have intense conversations with people at work.
“You’re a damn good detective, McMahan but you’re a loose cannon”.
“Get off my back Lieutenant, you do you’re job and I’ll do mine.”
Who are your theatre/acting role models?
T.V: Jason Alexander 1992 – 1995 on Seinfeld.
Film: Harrison Ford, Jeff Bridges
Theatre: Jonathan Young and Jonathan Goad.
What is your first memory of the theatre?
My first memory of the Theatre is being taken to see Winnie the Pooh at the local community theatre in Salmon Arm. I was frightened of the man in the giant bear suit.
What scares you most about the theatre?
Opening night parties and all the hugging, handshaking and witty banter that happens when you meet other artists. I’m not a very social or extroverted person but I’m starting to get better.