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The Great Acting Blog: “Where Does This Fear Of Independence Come From?”
Buster Keaton believed that the locus of artistic control in film should be with the performer. His style of long shots and long takes, was largely developed in order to give his performance as much freedom as possible, and to draw attention to his physical...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro – You’re Always Lucky”
His myth was created during that run of films with Martin Scorsese in the 1970s, and augmented by Godfather Part II and later, Once Upon A Time In America. By the time he did Goodfellas in 1990, he was a fully fledged movie star. For...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: As we close out the year…
....some of us may reflect and wonder why we didn't accomplish more. Each of us will have our own answer to this question. But next year I'm going to do more. ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Destroy Career Ambivalence”
The danger for many actors is career ambivalence. This is a situation whereby they beaver away trying to get acting work but none is forthcoming. They end up with the bone-crushing insanity which comes from being dedicated to craft but without having the opportunity to...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Truly Great Acting”
In yesterday's post I was not defending the use of phones during a performance as some of the messages I received seemed to think. My point was that it's impact is exaggerated and the irascible way that theatres deal with the issue is a symptom...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Theatre Is A Secret Garden No More”
I was at the theatre recently and just before the play was about to start a recorded voice came over the tannoy reminding us to turn our mobile phones off. Now, there's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but this voice possessed a...
Read MoreRalph Fiennes’ Acting Advice | The Great Acting Blog
Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'KvKw3RRBTlVyM9BI91A1iQ',sig:'OOv_XC5NrAnOO4t33ROB4JbiRZMQULN7UgWzWCcSXIA=',w:'395px',h:'594px',items:'544381638',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })}); Ralph Fiennes is one of the few true artists still working in our commercial cinema. He happens to be a great actor too, with the word "great" being a noun rather than an adjective. I stumbled upon an...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Anyone Can Have A Good Year”
Anyone can have a good year. Anyone can have a good couple of years. Question is: can you keep improving year after year after year? Subscribe to The Great Acting Blog ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Advancing The Needs Of Artist And Audience”
I often say that we need to promote the things we love in order to create the culture we want to be a part of - this means promoting the actors, films, plays etcetera that we want to see more of. Sometimes though, somebody promotes our...
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