STACK #133 Nov 2016

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with GETHIN ANTHONY

I listened to. I focused on Manson before 1967. Obviously there have been a lot of interviews with him since he has been in prison but it was important to concentrate on who he was at the time that the show was set in. I found a clip of him speaking to an engineer at a music studio. He spoke about all kinds of things and it was really helpful to listen to that every morning and then recite it. That was a big part of my preparation.

During your research, did anything in particular surprise you about Manson? When I came into the show, I probably knew as much about him as a lot of people on the high street, certainly about his infamous crimes and the media attention around his crimes both in the 1970s and up until the present day. What I didn’t know about his backstory, though, was that he spent most of his life in prison.

real Charles Manson during your preparation? I considered it for quite a long time and some experienced actors gave me some very good advice about it. In the end, that particular route wasn’t something that we pursued. Instead, I spent my time investigating Manson in a different way and I think that was the right decision for this particular job.

From a very young age, since basically he was a child, he was housed in prison-like institutions and then he was incarcerated for different crimes. I guess in my mind he was just a young guitar player in California in the 1960s and it was useful to think about him as having gone from being incarcerated for much of his life to then being out in the very liberated atmosphere of the sixties.

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