The Great Acting Blog: “A New Body For A Lost Soul”
“Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Performance In Your Head Doesn’t Count”
Will It Stop Raining In Summer is now complete It's always a surprise when I first see my own performance on screen, because I had the image in my mind of what I thought it was, and then, upon seeing the film, I see what...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Keeping Your Independence”
Gielgud as Hamlet "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Ot take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Mindboggling – Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler”
Tony Curtis plays Albert DeSalvo, who is picked up by the cops on a breaking and entering charge, but when the judge rules Albert is not of his right mind, he is institutionalised where psychiatrists diagnose him with a multiple personality disord...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Actor’s Life Should Be A Challenge”
A challenge is a thing which is difficult but doable, it must be within your control to do it – ie; if you knuckle down and apply your skills and apply the tools at your disposal, then, mixed with a bit of hard graft, you...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Exquisite – Tony Curtis In Monte Carlo Or Bust!”
Monte Carlo Or Bust is a wonderful, light ,fluffy affair, and contains an ensemble cast which includes the delights of the likes of Terry-Thomas, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It's about an international car rally, where the drivers must reach cert...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Why We Make Art”
What happens if he doesn’t get it? I always taught that this was a key question when analyzing a script for action, as in: What does the protagonist want? What happens if he doesn’t get it? In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus wants to raise the plague...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: As The Blog Reaches It’s 2nd Birthday, Here’s A List Of All Movies Mentioned In The Last Year”
August 25th marks the 2nd birthday of The Great Acting Blog, and for the final post of year 2, I've created a list of all films which have been referenced in the blog over the last 12 months. It has been another wonderful year of...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Insecure Actor”
I was stunned recently when a colleague of mine, whom I had had a very good relationship with until this point, casually slighted me in public. At first, I was in disbelief because the slight apparently came out of nowhere, and then my survival in...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Joy Of Acting”
The characters in my latest short film, Will It Stop Raining In Summer (currently in post-production), are all written “in the style of”, or at least the male characters, Maurice and Roger, are. Roger is having an affair with Maurice's wife, and t...
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