you're out there naked.
Everything depends on the
character, Nat. You have to
keep driving, driving. You
have to hold that audience.
And you can't give way to do-
ing `schtick; because there's
this sense of reality in the
play.
"The role is a real challenge
in another way, too. It's a kind
of a trick part, because Nat is
the instigator of all these
tales, and (the audience) often
doesn't know if he's lying or
telling the truth."
Weston says he sees the
81-year-old Nat as a man ex-
periencing his "last shot at
living" through the
characters he creates and all
the stories that he tells.
His portrayal of the
politically-conscious Nat was
inspired by memories of peo-
ple within his own family, he
adds.
"Nat isn't too far removed
at all from people I've
known," he says. "I grew up
during the Depression, and
my father was a Socialist —
always for reform, a kind of
moderate revolutionary. He
always wanted a better time
for his children. There were a
couple of Communists in our
family, too. So, I had that to
draw on, and I remember a lot
of that time."
Born Jack Weinstein in-
Cleveland, Ohio, Weston says
he never "studied acting," but
did spend much of his
childhood "learning by do-
ing" at the Cleveland
Playhouse.
"From the time I was about
10, I was onstage all the time,
and I learned by working.
When I'd do something
wrong, they'd say 'That was
dumb.' That was how I learn-
ed acting. It was great.
"I can't really say what in-
terested me so much in ac-
ting. None of my family was
in the theater. Maybe it was
the movies. We were poor, and
it was depressing at home
sometimes. So, I'd run to the
movies. That was my fantasy
life."
At 22, after a wartime stint
in the Army, he left Cleveland
for New York, where he at-
tended the American Theater
Wing on the G.I.Bill, and
worked as a dishwasher, an
elevator operator and a postal
clerk for three years before
landing a role as the
Gentleman Caller in a small,
summer stock production of
The Glass Menagerie, in
Peterboro, N.H. A talent scout
spotted him one evening in
the production and, by the
following September, Weston
was on Broadway.
"All during those three
years, I was just walking
around and banging on
doors,"he says. "I never got a

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