{"id":2347009,"date":"2026-03-26T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2347009"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:34:22","slug":"uma-thurman-recalls-brutally-blunt-advice-she-got-from-famous-actor-between-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/uma-thurman-recalls-brutally-blunt-advice-she-got-from-famous-actor-between-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Uma Thurman Recalls Brutally Blunt Advice She Got From Famous Actor Between Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a career retrospective on \u201cThe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/drew-barrymore\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Drew Barrymore\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c55040e4b0a6ee60c391d3\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/drew-barrymore\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">Drew Barrymore<\/a> Show\u201d this week, Thurman said she felt like a novice and \u201cbad actress\u201d among \u201cconsummate\u201d thespians in director Stephen Frears\u2019 1988 film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Thurman, who played the naive Cecile de Volanges in the period drama, said she was trying to \u201ccreate emotion\u201d and \u201cto work through my shame\u201d while thinking to herself, \u201cI know I\u2019m not good at this and I\u2019m trying so hard.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Finally she decided to confess her nervousness to Close, who played her conniving mentor Marquise de Merteuil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSo I said, \u2019Do you have any advice?\u201d Thurman remembered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAnd she looked at me in her beautiful outfit and she said, \u2018Try less hard.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Thurman delivered her impression in an imperious, no-nonsense voice and then cracked up at the memory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018She\u2019s telling me the truth.\u2019\u201d Thurman said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Fast-forward to 3:25 for Thurman\u2019s flop-sweat fear:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a career retrospective on \u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show\u201d this week, Thurman said she felt like a novice and \u201cbad actress\u201d among \u201cconsummate\u201d thespians in director Stephen Frears\u2019 1988 film. 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