So I look at my grandmother and stay in relationship with her, and she felt loved, and I know she did. You agree to the reality that the other actors have created and that is how you create a scene. It’s ‘yes, and.’ That is the number one rule of improv acting is you say ‘yes, and’ to everything. This is where the improv acting was so huge for me. And yet, if I sat with her and looked her in the eye, and we could have a nonsense conversation. So she wasn’t even married yet, she was going by her maiden name, she didn’t remember any of it. In an attempt to uncover the humanity behind the disease, and stay connected to her grandmother, Lisa began taking acting classes in addition to doing research: “So my grandmother didn’t know I was her granddaughter, she didn’t have access to memories beyond the age of 20. That ultimately became her inspiration for the story of Still Alice, which follows a 50-year-old woman and Ivy League linguistics professor day by day as she falls deeper into dementia as a result of her early-onset Alzheimer’s.
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