“I know how it feels to be insecure about playing the piano. Piano was my major in college. I studied for 20 years and thought I would become a conductor or a concert pianist. It didn’t go very well,” he said. “It worked out that he was the second banana in a lot of movies. The dream isn’t always to lead and follow, but I think it’s perceived as such.”
Additionally, Hayes said:
“I don’t have a drug addiction like he does, but I do have anxiety. I’m full of it and I also have some of my depression. It’s interesting,” Hayes said. Playing a character with so many different facets and levels in 2018 is truly a dream come true, and I wish all the roles I’ve played were as colorful as they have been.”
Wright won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his play I Am My Own Wife in 2004 and has written four Broadway musical books, including The Little Mermaid and Gray Gardens. Wright was also the screenwriter for an unproduced Spielberg film about Gershwin.
“The Chicago run was exhilarating. Oscar’s humor is not outdated, it still feels topical, it still has the power to shock and delight, and it was the first historical person to speak candidly about himself.” I learned that in his battle with mental illness, audiences really responded not only to his humor, but also to his vulnerability,” Wright said.
“One of the reasons he is so interested in exploring now is that he raises many questions about the role of humor in culture. is what role it can play,” Wright said. He added: