NEW YORK — Her voice sounded tight, anxious, tinged with pain. “I was, you know, underneath one of them while the two laughed,” the actress Elizabeth Marvel recited. “Two friends having a really good time with one another.
” Marvel was seated at a long table in a rehearsal room in Lower Manhattan in July, trying to get the intonations right for a woman under almost inconceivable pressure. The words were those of Christine Blasey Ford, leveling accusations of sexual assault against Brett M. Kavanaugh at his 2018 Senate confirmation hearings to be a justice of the U.
S. Supreme Court..