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The Great Acting Blog: “The Audition, A Tradegy Of Manners”

26.10.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

So I suddenly find myself preparing for my next short film, “The Audition”, which is about an actor, Tony Wallis, who is being seen for a play, but every time he starts to read the script, the director cuts him off after the first line,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Are Gamblers Who Live Out Many Lives, Intensely”

19.10.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 2,049 Comments

“The more success an actor has, the more he acquires the look of wax fruit; he is no longer devoured by life”. - Elia Kazan. Much of the actor's life can be, in turn, wretched, absurd, soul-destroying, exhilarating, humiliating, glorious, and he c...

The Great Acting Blog: “Closure Of Catharsis Q & A”

10.10.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 35 Comments

Check out this promo clip from feature film, Closure Of Catharsis Closure Of Catharsis is a feature film I made with Rouzbeh Rashidi at the end of last year. It's about a man who wrestles with himself as he attempts to remember a trauma from...

The Homo Sapiens Project….More Stills

08.10.2011 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

The Homo Sapiens Project is a series of personal, short video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi. I was asked to contribute to the project by speaking about myself for 40 minutes (few actors would pass on that opportunity), and duly obliged during a break i...

The Great Acting Blog: “Reality & Illusion”

28.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

All stills by Rouzbeh Rashidi The Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi, who asked me to contribute to the project by talking about myself on camera for 40 minutes (few actors need to be asked twice t...

The Great Acting Blog: “Duologue”

25.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 105 Comments

Still by Rouzbeh Rashidi By the time Dublin actor Cillian Roche arrived to do our scene, I had already completed my monologues for Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, He, and was feeling nicely warmed up thank-you very much. And, as with the monol...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Very Mysterious Business”

21.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

Still by Rouzbeh Rashidi Readers of my blog “Preparation For He”, will already know that I was in Dublin last week, filming He, the new feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi. It's essentially about a man who has decided, quite rationally, to commit suic...

The Great Acting Blog: “Preparation For He”

18.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

This week, I travelled to Dublin to start filming on Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, He. I am currently working on a series of blogs about the shoot, which Rashidi and I will expand into a codified technique that can be employed by other direc...

The Great Acting Blog: “Concealing And Revealing” by Mel Churcher

14.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 104 Comments

Mel is a leading acting and voice coach. She also coaches a wide range of professionals from budding newcomers to top film stars like Daniel Craig, Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley and Jet Li; from presenters like Raymond Blanc and Goldie to singer...

The Great Acting Blog: “Great Acting Is Wrought”

07.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 40 Comments

I recently watched a film which, by all accounts, I should have loved: the precise full frontal camerawork, the pared back narrative, “gaps” in the montage which encourages the viewer to create the film in his own imagination, and I am always inte...

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