There is perhaps no brow in show business better at furrowing thanTony Hales.
The temperature is a blazing 90 degrees, but the heat isnt whats troubling him.
I get to just kind of act like an idiot the whole time.
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Hale has been driven here like some kind of Hollywood bigshot!
Its the first of many times the ugliness of wealth inequality is pilloried.
But the cruelty and callousness of the lordly class infuses it all.
Hale says with a derisive laugh.
We can just stay here, and have a great time, and the plague doesnt exist.
No, hon, it doesnt work that way.
So Hale has never wielded a bow.
He wore the robe earlier this year while playing Qui-Gon Jinn in a staged reading ofThe Phantom Menace.
Our first rule no killing, Cyril says.
Never point arrows at anyone alive.
The next thing is, we have two eyes, which is incredible, I love having two eyes.
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Bad, bad, bad, Hale says.
Dont grip the bow too tightly.
Three fingers on the string: index above the arrow, middle, and ring below.
Pinky and thumb should meet behind the string.
Dont touch the feathers.
Pull your hand back to your face.
Keep your elbow up.
Aim, but not too much or for too long.
Great, great, great, Hale says.
This is effing terrifying, Hale says after thethwack!of the string launches his first arrow.
But hes into it.
Each time it happens, Hale lets out a loud, Ohhhh!
Imagine another actor any other actor saying the things Hale is saying.
You would assume that person was being a petulant dick.
Theres a lot of Hale in the anxious characters he plays.
There were addiction issues in the family, and Hale suffered panic attacks.
Ive had a lot of therapy, he says.
Im still in therapy, Ive always been in some kind of therapy, I love therapy.
I now have a lot of tools to better deal with things.
Using the pain of life to create joy.
Its a surreal process, but very powerful.
Hes also able to use his pain to create pain.
He stumbles upon a quiet lake and decides to go for a swim.
Hes happy for a moment, but the joy quickly seeps out of him.
He dips his head below the water and just … floats.
Its mesmerizing and brutal.
Hes also been known to bake.
Hale ate the pie by himself.
Plus, there are arts and crafts.
Next he plans to learn how to bend wood for make wooden bowls.
His Christian faith, which is deeply important to him, aids and guides him.
But he doesnt see it as a panacea.
I went through my own crisis of faith, he admits.
You have to be comfortable with the uncertainty.
Now that Im older, theres a peace to sitting in the tension of the unanswered question.
He immediately relates that feeling to politics.
(Hale played her galactically codependent assistant.)
You know, teaching archery is like acting and directing, he says.
Just as Cyril is delighted by Hales progress today.
Youre very natural, he tells the actor.
Youre doing great!Well, Hale responds, thatsnice to hear.
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