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Does blindness have a gender bias? Believe it or not, research shows that of the million people estimated to be visually impaired worldwide, 66 percent are women. As we age, many changes take place in our bodies. One change you might not notice as easily is your vision.
For these people, the condition can be caused by medical issues as well as environmental factors. Connect With Us. All rights reserved. The drooping can affect either the upper or the lower eyelid. When a person suffers from ptosis, the most common symptom is that the affected eye becomes smaller than the other one.
Ptosis can also affect both eyes. According to actor Whitaker, the ptosis in his left eye is a generic thing — something that he was born with. So I just go by how I feel, it's the only way you can figure it out. Otherwise you get lost in the maze of trying to second guess the people, the studio, how you can make your career long or short. It's easy to get lost in this maze, called life, really, you know what I mean? We rarely worked together, so it was all about getting to know some of the guys.
With the way scheduling was, she's not in the small frame as all of us. They never did it that way. The thing about the film was you did become closer with some people in ways because it took so long. This is the longest shoot I have ever had.
It was about shooting days. We also had rehearsals before that. I think it took so long because of the shots taken. It was the most planned movie I've been involved with. I went there with the purpose of understanding what it was like to be Ugandan, and I wanted to understand the food, the life, the way they deal with children and wives and with authority figures. I sat with Idi Amin 's brother underneath a big mango tree and he told me stories about what Idi was like and how he used to come to town and pull together soccer or rugby games.
It all helped me with figuring out the way he behaved and the way he thought, so that 24 hours a day, even in my dreams, I was totally consumed by the character of Idi Amin. It wasn't until the movie was over that I decided I could let go of the character, so the first thing I did was take a shower because I figured I could wash him off by scrubbing myself.
I was in a room by myself, so I started yelling to get his voice out of me and get my own voice back. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play and I got the lead. And she helped me to get into a conservatory, with a scholarship as a singer, and then I was accepted into the acting conservatory. This agent saw me, the summer before I went to conservatory, and while I was in school, I started working right away.
And it worked out. I tried to find his mindset more than anything. It's more like a trance-like state for this character than it is anything else, based in the ancient book that he follows. But I did a lot of different types of research.
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money. It doesn't allow everyone who wants to tell stories tell stories.
The great storytellers, however, are going to rise to the top, no matter what. That's why independent film is very important to me. My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me. But I don't really think about this eye, other than the times people talk about it, or when people take photographs of me sometimes they might say stuff about it.
I don't think it makes me look bad or anything. It just is. First of all I started learning Swahili, learning the accent, then I had to do study all the recording as well as all the books, tapes, documentaries. When I went to Uganda I met with his [ Idi Amin 's] brother, sister, his ministers, his generals and even to the Ugandan king. I did more research for this role than any other character I've probably ever played. I'm finding a balance in myself as an artist from the external and the internal, and so as a result the characters I play are going to be quite different.
So what's going to happen is that it's going to lift up the characters I play, we're going to start to see it and I think it's going to change the face of my career.
Because I'm not that person. I can spend a week in jail, but I'm still leaving. I once talked to a shaman who said, "What makes you think these characters you play aren't real? I think you should examine that.
As a director. I feel like it's real. I get caught up in the emotions and the story. I like being a storyteller. I was working at least no less than 15 usually, to I broke the script down to such a degree that i could see exactly where I was at any time and what had happened before. I have never worked that specifically.
It was one of the most challenging roles I had ever played, and as a result it kind of revitalized me as an actor. It brought the joy back to acting in a way. And sometimes you finish a scene and you go over to him, and he'd just be weeping tears in his chair, crying.
Coming over to say 'Was that okay? It's kind of exhilarating and sort of unbalancing at the same time. I've talked to different groups who are in social activism and stuff and I would say to them 'You take your photograph right now of the ten of you. You may think yourselves anonymous and maybe sometimes you might be. But I want you to remember that each step you take is a part of history.
That as we live and breathe, history is occurring. The fact that those photographs we used to see in the '60s of those individuals that you admire, that you didn't know their names but saw them marching down the streets - those are us. We need to have our voices heard, acknowledge things for what they are, because acknowledgment is a big part of the healing of the nation.
And then we have to make a conscious choice so that we can move forward to some form of repentance -some form of recompense, so that we can move into a forgiveness space of compassion.
This oneness that we're reaching for is a hard thing to fight for because inside of it people are frightened. They're afraid.
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