On a Field Trip, Bridge Star Jessica Hecht Gets Happy Tony News

The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start ringing off the hook for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2010 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Jessica Hecht
Nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play, A View from the Bridge
“I was getting ready to go on a field trip to the Lower East Side with my daughter’s school, for their immigration studies. I stopped in a cafe to get a coffee, and when I looked down, I had four messages from my agent and manager, so I had a feeling something was up! It was funny to then sit down in the Eldridge Street Synagogue and hear stories of the immigrants and how little they had. Last night I was thinking, ‘I’m doing such a genius job of being zen and not caring [about the Tonys],’ and then my mother called and said, ‘I think it’s tomorrow that you find out.’ And of course, you go right to that place of ‘Oh god, I hope I do it for her.’ I was feeling so strongly that I wanted [co-stars Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson to be nominated] because we were all so connected, and I definitely had some moments of feeling, ‘Am I up to that level?’ This is my first [nomination], and for me, it means that the people I’ve aspired to work with see me as worthy of working with them.”

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