BURTON NEARLY SHUNNED ACTING LEGACY

One of Tony nominee Kate Burton’s very first childhood performances was playing a Russian ballet teacher who was a man in her school production of You Can’t Take It With You. The acting bug didn’t bite right away as Kate says she wasn’t sure about following in the footsteps of her famous acting parent Richard Burton.

Acting is in the Burton genes as her teenage son Morgan is continuing the family legacy. Oddly enough Kate swears she can sense her father’s presence whenever she is feeling fearful.

“I just remember talking loudly and had a big moustache. Actually I really enjoyed myself but I really didn’t plan on being an actress until I was a senior in college. I just thought it was the stupidest profession. My parents I couldn’t believe, my mother, my father, my stepmother, my stepfather, they were all actors. And I thought, ‘Oy I got to do something else.’”

“Yep I do, particularly when I’m feeling fearful or scared which is always a good thing by the way. Not a bad thing to feel fearful or scared when you’re an actor. And invariably there is some kind of spine of steel thing that happens that I feel is like my dad standing on my shoulder and going, ‘get through it.’ It’s a Celtic thing.” rnrn