I haven’t cried in, what, 30 years

I haven’t seen my arch-nemesis at Bikram in a few days and it’s felt a little off, frankly.
Is she plotting against me full-time?
Has something gone terribly wrong for her?
[And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the original POST about it.]
Anyway, I was speculating about new projects, one of which involves theater, and there’s an actor I think is truly amazing, and he has something in common with my arch-nemesis and well …
That’s all, I’ll say –– except that he’s a genius.
This scene always makes me burst into tears.
And I would like to point out that I saw it at the press screening and EVERYONE burst into tears.  [And I mean that.]
And that within the scene, the entire panel cries after he leaves the room and they’ve seen this monologue like 4 million times (including person after person that day.]
Anyway, even if like the director, you haven’t cried in 30 years, maybe this will loosen things up.
[P.S.  I’ll put the reviews at the end, because honestly you should just watch him do this scene –– and please realize, it’s a two minute monologue without any props or context and it’s amazing.]
 

From the New York Times:
“Other [characters] sing and speak about their childhood love of dancing and one, Paul, delivers a heart-wrenching soliloquy about coming out as a gay man and an artist. The casting of this part is one of the most touching and least suspenseful moments in the film, thanks to Jason Tam’s tour de force audition. As a general rule, if you reduce an entire casting committee to tears, you’ll probably get the part.”
From National Public Radio:
“The new material, gathered at the revival’s tryouts, is occasionally riveting — Jason Tam, say, nailing his character’s monologue so completely that he leaves the whole casting table in tears.”
From the Hollywood Reporter:
” … the best moment comes when [Jason Tam] nails a dancer’s monologue about being gay and his parents’ reaction.”
And finally from Time Out New York:
“A whole film could be made about Jason Tam, whose audition brings the revival’s behind-the-scenes personnel to tears with astonishing ease.”

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