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Alasdair Flagella “Just feel like a messy puppy,” Julia Crockett instructs me, her eyes beaming with enthusiasm as if she’s already part-way to embodying one herself. “Just be a sloppy puppy,” she excitedly repeats. “Sloppy puppy, sloppy puppy.”
Now, Crockett isn’t literally requesting that I turn into the animal while we sip matcha lattes in a Lincoln Heights café. But that was the very real advice she bestowed upon Sarah Pidgeon (or “Pidge,” as she refers to the actor) when it came to tapping into the physicality of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, whom she portrayed — to much acclaim — in the recent Ryan Murphy-produced TV series, “Love Story.” “Her senses had to be alive,” says Crockett. “And I kept saying to Sarah, ‘Really use your eyes to see the world, touch the world, taste the world, breathe through your mouth. Notice every little thing.’”
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