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The Great Acting Blog: “Their Law Trailer Shoot”

12.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

This week, I shot my scene for the trailer of Their Law, a tightly scripted crime-thriller feature film being produced by Sean J Vincent and Andre Renner, about deception and corruption within the underworld and the government. It's a zero sum gam...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Context And It’s Work”

05.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

An actor should always allow the context within which the scene takes place to do it's work, that is, he need only play the actions asked of him by that particular scene, and need not worry about what has taken place in preceding scenes. One...

Michel Piccoli In Cahiers Du Cinema

01.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Last week I published a post which attempted to understand the nature of Michel Piccoli's talent, and, to a certain extent, that post was successful. However, I still felt that I hadn't really done justice to Piccoli and have decided, in an effort to make...

The Discreet Madness Of Michel Piccoli | The Great Acting Blog

29.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

“There are musicians who practice all the time but we actors are not able to do that. We don't have an instrument, except if you say we are our own instrument, and yet I always try to continue searching and working for the moment where...

The Great Acting Blog: “My 10 Favourite Performances In Films I Happened To See In 2010”

22.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I had intended to blog about a scene I was to shoot for the trailer for Sean J Vincent's new feature film, a psychological thriller called Their Law, where I get shot in the foot. Unfortunately, Sean got stuck at Munich airport, a victim of...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Very Real Mystery”

15.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Last week, in Hackney's London Fields, I shot a scene for Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, provisionally titled Closure Of Catharsis. Rouzbeh intentionally works without a script and outside the bounds of traditional storytelling, instead, his ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Prepare To Play”

08.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes the actor is employed to work on a production where there is no time to rehearse his scenes with his director and fellow cast members before performance. This situation is rare in the theatre and more common in films with a small budget...

The Great Acting Blog: “Work For Your Own Satisfaction”

01.12.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It is true that going on rounds and rounds of auditions is not necessarily the most productive use of the actor's time, however, the actor must accept auditioning as part of the actors' life (unless he forms his own theatre company that is). The a...

The Great Acting Blog: “From Fake Independence To A True Artistic Culture”

24.11.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Being independent has nothing whatever to do with money, or lack thereof. It has got nothing to do with the means of production. Independence is about how you think. We're currently seeing the proliferation of filmmakers who describe themselves as...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Troublesome Character”

17.11.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Whenever I read a new script for the first time, I try to do so objectively, without paying special attention to the scenes in which my character appears, but treating all parts equally. I do this because it is important to get a sense of...

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