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The Great Acting Blog: “Create The Culture You Want To Be A Part Of”

09.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When Jacques Rivette arrived in Paris, he stayed with the only friend he had. A local bookshop owner told him Robert Bresson's Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne was playing at a film club and Rivette went along. There he met Eric Rohmer who was a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Into The Storm”

08.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

If you're put off doing something because there is some aspect of it that is unpleasant to you or difficult or something that will upset your feeling of complacency, know this: accomplishing anything worthwhile is rarely nice and clean and easy. If it's worth doing,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do Your Own Thing”

07.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 22 Comments

I've often written on this blog that actors should take full responsibility for their work and not wait around for directors to give them instructions. The lack of responsibility has grown up precisely because of the directorial dominance of the actor which has emerged in...

The Great Acting Blog: “Pick The Right Goals”

06.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

What are your goals? When you accomplished one of your goals, how did it feel? Was it worth the trade-offs we have to make as actors? And if it wasn't worth it, why not? If it wasn't worth the trade-offs then the goal didn't fulfil you, it wasn't what...

The Great Acting Blog: “Own Your Work”

05.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"what chance has made yours is not really yours" - Seneca If you follow the industrial model of acting then you can survive by being merely competent. That is the lure of it. It's reassuring, it's safe, there's no pressure to be extraordinary, it's just a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Post Production Blues”

04.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

Post production blues, that time when something we have been working on for months has finally ended and we have to endure the emotional wrench of letting it go. There is that period of reflection, of looking back over the production, of questioning what we...

The Great Acting Blog: “Being Woody Allen”

03.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"I love working as an actor with filmmakers that I admire, but what I realised on the Woody Allen set is that I definitely wanted to be in the movie, but, more than that, I wanted to be Woody Allen, which is a different impulse"...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Driven Actor”

02.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

One of the objections to producing your own work is that many actors just want to be actors. They want to be left free of the additional worry and distraction that comes with directing and producing, they want to be able to concentrate on their performance...

Build Confidence Through Practice

01.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Periods of unemployment can lead to a loss of confidence in our abilities as an actor - the belief that we can do it and that we are worthy of a place, gradually shrink away. This can create the cruel situation of not being in...

The Great Acting Blog: “Using Memory To Learn More Effectively”

31.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I have been wanting to write something about learning lines for a while now but have struggled to come up with a way of making it seem, well, sexy. My recent research on the nature of memory however, has lead me to discover new ways...