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I have to give the audience the opportunity to know this person merely by his behavior. I don't say a thing. And that's a real challenge. There's no chance to say what you feel. Or to have an exchange with another person where his feeling are revealed. So everything about Uncle Ernie has to be made clear in his behavior. Ernie has to be played as a very real character because if you make him grotesque, the drama just doesn't work. He's a man on the outside of everything- and that's how he functions, even in the blocking of the show. He travels around the edge of most things that happen, and has no place to get in. He's not in the army because he's physically impaired by a limp, so he can't take part in a ma