February 24, 201114 yr The 23-year-old, who has dazzled on the catwalk and the silver screen, said rehearsing for her debut stage role in a powerful but funny play about society's obsession with physical beauty had changed her outlook. "(It's) made me look at everything that we feel about beauty and also about the way it affects us. Just little things I've started to notice, just how often we refer to things as beautiful or not," she said yesterday."It really helps us all to see how absurd we are."Ward has been almost a recluse since the death of actor Heath Ledger, with whom she was briefly involved just before his death.She attended a press conference in Perth yesterday to discuss the play, called The Ugly One, which opens at the new State Theatre Centre next month.While her minders put more restrictions on the media than when Chinese President Hu Jintao was in town, including a demand that no questions be asked about her personal life or modelling career, Ward seemed unconcerned.She defused one breach by revealing she spends her free time playing ping-pong and chess with family in Perth, sidestepped a question about how it felt to be performing at a complex where the main theatre is named after Ledger, and left director Melissa Cantwell to defend questions on the media restrictions.Ward said her modelling career had helped her empathise with the characters in the play."Plastic surgery seems to be the one thing today which is the most popular . . . almost a form of mutilation for beauty," she said.Ward takes on three roles in The Ugly One: Fanny, the wife of an unspeakably ugly man who has plastic surgery after being held back at work; a nurse; and a 73-year-old woman who has surgery to look young.She said the work was challenging, but she would like to do more theatre, including Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams.She said her views on beauty would not stop her returning to modelling.from here
February 24, 201114 yr You're welcome Jennka. I wish I could see this play. Have you watched "The Black Balloon"? She was pretty good in it!
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