Your work gives you Confidence Strength Joy Self-respect. Your work is your talent, your unique gift. Doing your work means [slowly] becoming the person you always wanted to be. Your work makes you tick. It’s the one thing in your life you absolutely will not compromise on. But your work also frightens you. It...
Read MoreGyöngyvér Vigh's performance in Adoption, is a powerful example of acting intentions; of having a good, clear, strong intention towards the other actor in the scene. Vigh knows precisely what she wants the other actor to do as a result of her actions. As we...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175664532" align="aligncenter" width="700"] David Mamet and John Malkovich in rehearsals for Bitter Wheat.[/caption] I stopped going to the theatre a few years back because so much of what I saw was dead. Theatres had become museums; places where we go to see re-creations of classic...
Read MoreMy quest to better understand the workings of the human mind, has brought me to the superb book by psychoneuroimmunologist Nick Hall; I Know What To Do, So Why Don't I Do It?. I actually listened to the audiobook which takes the form of a...
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog [gallery type="square" ids="175664392,175664391,175664393,175664463"] An analysis of the literal action of the protagonist, Zorg, reveals to us the tragic irony in Betty Blue. In Jean-Jaques Beineix's Betty Blue, Zorg [played by Jean-Hugues Anglade], is a laidback handyman employed to take care of a bunch beach huts....
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I had intended to write-up a review of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 's Creativity - The Psychology Of Discovery And Invention, but it contains so many compelling ideas that I wanted to look at them further, along with their possible implications for acting. So I am planning...
Read MoreSubscribe The script for my new feature film was completed earlier this year. It's a neo-absurdist mystery noir, a psychological twilight thriller, called Composure. Here's how Ray Milland influenced it's direction...
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The Respect Actor possesses the drive and the love to master their skills, to become an expert on acting. Consequently, They are individual creative artists with a rational sense of their self-worth, rather than supplicants sucking up to so-called authority figures. Consequently, They have the strength and confidence to...
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You are confronted by a seemingly impossible problem. Know this. Your decision to become an actor means you are remarkable. Few possess the necessary drive to make such a decision in the first place. Fewer still possess the self-insight to see that they need to do creative...
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