![]() ![]() Which is true? All of them, none of them. His drive to excel, we're alternately told, comes from his desire to escape the poverty he knew as a child, to win his overly strict father's approval, to outdistance the doubt and fear that plagued him throughout his adult life. Meyer's book Houdini: A Mind in Chains : A Psychoanalytic Portrait, this is a look at not only what he did but why he did it. (The production is now making its way to DVD.) Though it's more than 60 years later, the new Houdini doesn't rely on camera tricks to wow its audience, but on Brody's talent. Academy Award winner Adrien Brody stared in a two-part television mini-series, Houdini for the History Channel. Tony Curtis starred in a popular bio-flick in the early 1950s and for many contemporary viewers, that film remains the benchmark performance. He ultimately differentiated himself from other magicians of his time by becoming an escape artist and nobody did an escape routine like he did, so he figured out how to rise above the rest.Harry Houdini, the 19th century illusionist and escape artist, has been the subject of various biographies. Mainly because I witnessed what this man endured on a smaller level, with the risk involved, his determination, the discomfort he must have experienced, the pressure of all his routines and his unrelenting drive to overcome these obstacles.Ī: What I didn’t know as a young man and as a child about Houdini was that he had many failures along the way and disappointments. Q: Did this role change how you look back at yourself as a child?Ī: It has more made me re-evaluate myself as a man. ![]() It all stems from developing and creating this illusion, which I learned at a very young age. I see parallels and how it was a stepping stone to understanding how to make something your own, making a role your own, making a scenario and connecting with it. Acting followed this introduction to performance. ![]()
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