Lisa McCune doesn't feel uncomfortable playing a difficult character in Sweat: "Everybody knows I'm not like that."When Lisa McCune is acting in a play, or even in a musical, there's always a line that sticks with her.
Tracey thinks you've got to know someone to get a job at the factory: She got in because her father worked there and now her son, Jason, works there too. On ABC RN's The Stage Show, Nottage said of Sweat: "When people are facing economic stress, they look for people to blame and the low-hanging fruit in America tend to be people of colour.""She's a character who almost thought things might never change," says McCune. "But then the change started happening around her, and maybe she didn't want to evolve with it or change with it.
"The economy and inflation are really scary for a lot of people at the moment," says McCune. "That heat is what this play is about. It's the sweat, it's about the Rust Belt, it's about the workers and their heritage."McCune grew up wanting to be a marine biologist or an astronaut, not an actor. "I just wanted to be everything as a kid," she says.
By 22, McCune had landed what may still be her most well-known role: Constable Maggie Doyle in long-running police drama Blue Heelers, which earned her four Gold Logies over seven seasons.