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The Great Acting Blog: “Set Your Own Standards”

13.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

The test of an actor's dedication is often this: “how much shit can you eat?” And the measurement of the quantity of shit eaten, is the measurement of that actor's dedication, ie – the more shit you can eat the more dedicated you are. When...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Good Actor”

06.04.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 10 Comments

The acting profession is hopelessly oversubscribed, and it seems the individual actor has little or no control over his ability to construct a body of work. The challenge for all actors is to make themselves heard amid the cacophony. However, the ...

Peter Mullan In My Name Is Joe – Acting Is Poetry | The Great Acting Blog

30.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

Once in a blue moon a performance comes along which is so excellent it forces me to completely re-examine what it is I'm doing in my own work, and Peter Mullan's in My Name Is Joe is one such performance. Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Jabber, Man”.

23.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

The clip is from the film version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, it's a play I've always longed to do. The work you do is a reflection of who you are, and they say we tend to employ people who are the same as us....

The Great Acting Blog: “Boring! Boring!”

16.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

I love reading interviews with actors, filmmakers, playwrights etcetera, infact. with anyone of note who I admire, it gives me pleasure, and sometimes I gain an insight or hear something articulated which makes sense of something I felt but couldn...

Chishu Ryu In Late Spring – The Great Acting Blog

09.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,711 Comments

This week, I watched Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 masterpiece, Late Spring, and was immediately captivated by the performance of Ozu regular, Chishu Ryu, who plays a widower called Professor Somiya, and spends most of the film trying to get his daughter No...

The Great Acting Blog: “Never Compromise”

16.02.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Checkout the video, it's a 5 minute short film by Mike Leigh, "The Birth Of The Goalie Of The 2001 FA Cup Final". This week, I had a meeting which could've lead to some work, sadly however, when I arrived for the meeting, the director...

The Great Acting Blog: “First Response”

09.02.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 22 Comments

Check out this promo clip from Closure Of Catharsis, a new feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi. Generally, seeing myself on screen has little or no affect on me. Many actors say they hate seeing themselves act, and some pretend to be indifferent. Othe...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actor-Filmmakers”

02.02.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 89 Comments

After hearing that Paddy Considine's directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, won a couple of prizes at the recent Sundance Film Festival (a Special Jury Prize for acting, and the World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic), I was reminded of the sheer number ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Drifting Clouds”

26.01.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 85 Comments

Check out the video, it's the trailer for (An)Other Irish Cinema. I've long been skeptical of the notion that the actor should not have control over his work and his life. I hold the opinion that the actor is an artist in the same way...

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