Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="563"] ”Please see who I am. Please fall in love with me, not a fantasy.” - Kim Novak[/caption] Like all great art, a hidden truth is revealed when the real and the imaginary combine, and the viewer experiences the clatter of...
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Is acting an art? First we must define what we mean by art. In his book What Is Art?, Leo Tolstoy conceptualises it as when the artist, in their own unique way, gives expression to a feeling they have experienced, infecting others with it so that...
Read MoreMediocre actors don't bother with the finer points of their work. They don't think it matters because they don't think anyone is paying close enough attention. They're ham-fisted, obvious, and serve-up only what has worked before, re-creating rather than creating. The artistic actor however, deals in personal...
Read MoreIn Carol Reed's 1948 film, The Fallen Idol, Ralph Richardson plays Baines, a butler charged with taking care of the French ambassador's 10 year old son. Richardson is trapped in an unhappy marriage while he carries on an illicit affair with an employee from the French embassy,...
Read MoreI used to think that the quality of our performance was determined by how hard we had worked. That is, the harder we worked, then the stronger our performance would be, it couldn't be good if it wasn't stressful*. But now I'm not so sure....
Read MoreThe inability, or unwillingness, to examine oneself and what one has done, is the sign of a deep sense of personal worthlessness. Truthful reflection is impossible because if what one finds is not to one's liking, then an existential catastrophe may ensue. In acting, this...
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