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The Great Acting Blog: “Life Through The Dramatic Prism”

23.05.2012 , 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: “Only Worry About Action”

16.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Check out this quick teaser for our new short, Phone Box Gun. My action in the scene above, was to get my scene partner to agree with me (within the fiction of script, this amounted to Bob getting Vincent to let him buy him a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Some Thoughts On Self-Producing”

09.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I'm often an advocate on this blog, of actors being their own bosses, creating their own productions, the reasons for doing so are too numerous to mention here, but in the modern era I would say it's essential rather than an option. Having recentl...

The Great Acting Blog: “Stills From Phone Box Gun”

06.05.2012 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

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The Great Acting Blog: “The Acting Style Of Phone Box Gun”

02.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Phone Box Gun, my new short film, will be a minimalist heist movie, which I intend to shoot in black and white. It's about a young man, Vincent, who needs cash in order to visit his long lost sister in Mexico, and so, under the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Rewarding & Enrichiching – Being An Individual Creative Artist”

25.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Check out this clip, where Mickey, a businessman, verbally dismantles a competitor (contains rude words). In 2008, I wrote my first, and, as yet, my last one man play, called The Call. It was about a businessman, called Mickey, who, upon learning ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Make Choices You Enjoy – John Malkovich In Colour Me Kubrick”

18.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

Malkovich is one of those American actors who is regarded as a real actor, which is to say, he actually can act, he's an artist, he's in it because he wants to be a great actor, or make a great contribution, he's certainly an actor...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actor As Artist – Makiko Esumi In Hirokazu Koreeda’s Maborosi”

11.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I was completely stunned this week when I saw an astonishing masterpiece by Japanese auteur, Hirokazu Koreeda, called Maborosi. The film centres on Yumiko and Tamio,a couple who seem to live in a quiet marital happiness, until tragedy strikes when...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Response To Otar Iosseliani’s Comments On Actors’ Aura”

04.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 33 Comments

“I cant stand intimate scenes in cinema...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Independent Actor”

28.03.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Donald Wolfitt made a name for himself at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1936 as Hamlet, and he tried to persuade the management to bankroll him on a tour of the provinces. They declined the invitation, so he withdrew his savings and started ...