Laura Donnelly on the Most Rewarding Part About Performing in 'The Hills of California' | Tony Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

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At the 2025 Tony Awards red carpet, Laura Donnelly chats with THR and breaks down the morning of Tonys nominations. Plus, she shares the most rewarding part about playing her role in 'The Hills of California.'

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00:00how special is it to be here tonight and be representing your show as a nominee it's so

00:05wonderful i mean i i finished in my play before christmas and so to get to come back and revisit

00:13it and just remember how amazing that experience was and get to celebrate it is it's a beautiful

00:18thing take me back to nomination morning where were you when you found out who's the first person

00:23you told i was in california trying trying not to know anything about it i've been on a night

00:28shoot the night before and i had a night shoot the next night and i was trying to sleep but i so i

00:33put my phone on do not disturb but i knew my body woke me up anyway because i was like i have to

00:38know i have to know how the play did as a whole and um and it was fantastic you know i was so i was

00:44really amazed that we got seven nominations for our play and that was a really incredible thing

00:49like i said because you know we had closed back in december and um yeah i can't even remember who

00:55the first person was i spoke to probably somebody at work what's been the most rewarding part about

01:02this role for you always just the long-term playing of it that's always the most rewarding aspect the

01:11relationships that i form in the theater the um what i get to know about myself in the process i mean

01:17in this particular job we uh our playwright wrote rewrote the entire third act just before we came to

01:24broadway and that was the most terrifying thing that i've ever had to face and yet i did it and

01:29it went brilliantly and so i feel like i found something out that i thought i couldn't do and it

01:34turns out i can so those learning moments are always massive is there one person that you would

01:39especially like to thank tonight for championing your love for the arts and getting you here

01:43um my who is now no longer with us um but my irish dancing teacher when i was a kid patricia mulholland

01:51was the first one that made me uh realize that there was a possibility of actually being on the stage

01:57for for your life so many incredible uh shows and productions this season is there another one

02:04thought of your own that really wowed you i saw nicole in sunset boulevard um just when i'd come

02:13into town in september it was the only one i really had a chance to see and she was spectacular she

02:20absolutely blew me away um i didn't get a chance to see all the ones that i would love to see because

02:26we have to leave town immediately after we've finished and this is the first time i've been back so

02:31i'm hoping to maybe catch some this week on my trip here

Laura Donnelly on the Most Rewarding Part About Performing in 'The Hills of California' | Tony Awards 2025

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