I’ve always been a Cynthia Nixon fan, and it’s funny to think back to some of her earlier roles. Before Miranda Hobbes and her powerful turns in shows like The Gilded Age, she was actually in Amadeus when she was just 16! She played Lorl, a young maid who Salieri uses to keep tabs on Mozart. It was a small part, but really memorable. Lorl basically spies on Mozart for food and money, and she gets genuinely scared by his increasingly erratic behavior. But even after everything, she still shows up to his funeral – it’s a really sweet, human moment that always stuck with me. It just goes to show what a versatile actress she’s always been.
This wasn’t Nixon’s first acting job. As a teenager, she’d been in the movie Little Darlings and performed on Broadway in plays like The Philadelphia Story (she’d be returning to Broadway later that year in Marjorie Prime). However, Amadeus – based on a successful play and directed by Miloš Forman – was a much bigger deal. Nixon realized it would be a significant project and knew she’d have to audition multiple times. Despite this, she confidently asked the producers that, if cast, they cover her travel expenses between Prague, where Amadeus was filmed, and New York City, so she could continue her studies at the rigorous Hunter College High School.
Nixon unexpectedly found herself working with a renowned director on a future Best Picture winner, but the shoot took place behind the Iron Curtain. As she shared on our Role Call series, she gained invaluable experience, learning from director Forman and navigating a vastly different society than she was used to. She recalls a pervasive sense of being watched. “There were government spies everywhere,” she remembers. “People would casually approach you, start conversations, and ask your opinion on the Czech government.” She was just a teenager at the time, still in high school, and admits, “I didn’t have any opinions about the Czech government!”
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