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Article: 'Carrington' star Jonathan Pryce is clearly in driver's seat as an actor.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 8, 1995
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NEW YORK _ ``Everything has to do with the beard,'' says Jonathan Pryce by way of explaining how he mastered the role of Lytton Strachey, Bloomsbury bad boy, biographer and critic, and the subject _ along with Emma Thompson's Dora Carrington _ of the new movie, ``Carrington.''
``It was like a mask which freed my body,'' the actor says of the hairy hedge that dangles from his chin in playwright-turned-director Christopher Hampton's film. ``I literally disappeared behind the thing.''
Pryce, grinning gamely, also credits a wig and a pair of wire-rims for helping him ``inhabit'' the Strachey character. All of which is just a mite disingenuous: Pryce's portrayal ...