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Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “22 Principles For Better Acting”
"Learn your lines, find your mark, look `em in the eye and tell `em the truth." - James Cagney As I come to produce my next short film, my mind is a-clutter with dozens of small details which can pre-occupy to the exent that my...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Acting Weird”
The actor should always allow the context within which the scene takes place to do it's work. Below is an extract from the script for our new short film, Will It Stop Raining In Summer. Beryl is married to Maurice, but having a secret affair...
Read MoreThe Future Of Acting | The Great Acting Blog
“we have to be optimistic. The moment actors start thinking otherwise, they're dead. You simply have to believe you have a future.” - Peter O'Toole. Peter O'Toole is a god of acting, he is a great actor, his performance in Becket is one of my...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need To Reclaim Acting – Lessons From EA Dupont’s Piccadilly”
EA Dupont's silent era masterpiece, Piccadilly, is set in a fashionable London nightclub, and is about an exotic dancer, played by Anna May Wong, whose routines lead to her becoming the toast of Jazz-Age London. She also becomes the erotic obssesi...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Authenticity”
A few weeks ago I watched Milos Forman's debut, Audition. An early example of the Czech New Wave, shot in 16mm, the film is essentially a faux-documentary split in two parts; the first centres on the rehearsals of a group of amateur musicians prep...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Why The Panic Set In, by Alfie Black”
Alfie Black is a London based actor. Throughout my career I have never really suffered any panic attacks whilst performing. That was of course until I filmed the pivotal interior scene from Phone Box Gun. Even though I originally met the writer/di...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Phone Box Gun – Full Trailer Now Up”
This blog has become a real fulcrum for me, and I’m very grateful to those who take an interest in it, support it, and offer feedback. As it is, I’m delighted to share with you the full trailer for our new film, Phone Box Gun....
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Welcome to WordPress.com! This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it, or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it. Happy...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Marjo-Riikka Makela’s Response To My Blog On Why Actors Quit”
I am delighted to be presenting to you Marjo-Riikka's response to my post, Why Actors Quit. It is passionate, and full of wonderful insight - really a must read. Marjo-Riikka is a US based Finnish actress and founder of the successful Los Angeles ...
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