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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 , 1 Comment

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 , 2 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 , 0 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 , 0 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 , 30 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...

The Narusian Setsuko Hara by Richie Abraham | The Great Acting Blog

04.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 18 Comments

Richie Abraham is a cinephile who lives and works in Mumbai, and whose regular comments on this blog have been wonderfully intelligent and insightful, and at times mindblowing. And so it is I am delighted to be presenting The Great Acting Blog's v...

The Great Acting Blog: “Crissy Rock In Ken Loach’s Ladybird Ladybird

31.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

"Drama games wear very thin and an intelligent actor will soon resent being treated like a child" - Peter Brook In Ladybird Ladybird, Crissy Rock plays Maggie Conlon, a woman who has had four children by four different fathers. One evening, Rock l...

The Great Acting Blog: “The 52nd Post”

24.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 31 Comments

"Actors, by the nature of their calling, have a simpler, purer conception of art. They have dedicated their lives to individual, personal expression—to what you are calling “holding onto your mind’s eye view”—against all the bureaucratic and socia...

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