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The Great Acting Blog: “Acting Is Rebelling”

29.06.2014 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

At source, our decision to be an actor is an act of rebellion. It is a show of dissatisfaction with, and an incomprehension of, the status quo. It is a striking-out, a desire to create our own order of things, to explore and express how...

New Feature Film Announcement: Neurosis Noir

28.06.2014 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/99406075 Work has begun on Neurosis Noir. Part noir, part demented psychological thriller, Neurosis Noir will be a character portrait of Roland Williams, an intense paranoic, who is unsure about whether he is the perpetrator of a recent spate of murders or not. In an attempt to occupy...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Smart Actor”

28.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It's impossible to go through your career without encountering adversity, and how you respond to it has a massive impact on your progression and quality of life. If you whinge, if you long for it all to be so much easier, if you get brow-beaten,...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Are You Doing?”

27.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Sometimes, how we feel influences how well we think we're doing. But emotions are a poor indicator of our progress, they are liable to lead us up the garden path, and negative emotions can result in destructive decision-making. To measure our progress we need to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Emotional Fascists”

26.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I've always loathed those who are unable to keep their insecurities under some sort of control. Yes acting can be a tricky business, and yes we are making ourselves vulnerable and all that, but we really need to control ourselves. And, to be fair,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Working To Achieve Artistic Growth”

25.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When you'd rather not do your work, is exactly the time to do it. Whatever the resistance is, go through it, don't back down. Dig deeper even after it begins to hurt, keep working after it stops being fun, remain focussed even when you'd rather...

The Great Acting Blog: “I Know It’s Boring To Talk About Discipline, BUT…”

24.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

... It is essential if you are to strip your day down and focus only on those few tasks which are critical to those few goals which, if accomplished, will change everything. Subscribe to The Great Acting Blog ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Deliver The Extraordinary”

23.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

"I don’t invent anything. I imagine everything… most of the time, I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that it is by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate...

The Great Acting Blog: “Embrace Drudgery Now, Enjoy Exhilaration Later”

22.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 25 Comments

The myth is that the creative life is supposed to be all fun and frolics, all of the time. The reality however, is that there are long periods of drudgery, long periods of graft and boredom. This is true whether you are in rehearsal (how many...

The Great Acting Blog: “Accept The Invitation To Improve”

21.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Embrace your mistakes and your failures and your wrong turnings. Don't ignore them, don't repress them, don't pretend they didn't happen. And don't see them as an affront to your self-esteem or evidence of your uselessness. They are in fact invitations to learn and make...

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