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The Great Acting Blog: “A Troublesome Character”

17.11.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Whenever I read a new script for the first time, I try to do so objectively, without paying special attention to the scenes in which my character appears, but treating all parts equally. I do this because it is important to get a sense of...

Alain Delon | The Great Acting Blog

10.11.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 53 Comments

‎"I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'" Alain Delon delivered great pe...

The Great Acting Blog: “My Own Good Opinion”

20.10.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

When I started out as an actor, I accepted any part in any production that came my way. I didn't think too deeply about the production or who was producing it or the quality of the work or what it might accomplish, I was simply...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Exhilaration Of Creation”

13.10.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

This week I watched Down Terrace, a brilliant film a about a crime family who live in a nondescript terraced house in order to masque their ill-gotten gains, and who spend most of the film receiving visitors there in an effort to find out who...

The Great Acting Blog: “Mr Hurt”

06.10.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 17 Comments

Recently, and by coincidence, I have seen three of John Hurt's major performances: As Krapp in the film version of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, as icy hitman Braddock in Stephen Frear's 80s film noir The Hit, and as the bigotted Old Man Pea...

The Great Acting Blog: “Waiting For Godot”

22.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Watching Michael Lindsay-Hogg's production of Waiting For Godot, made as part of Beckett On Film, I finally came to realize the play's true power and why it's held up as a masterwork of 20th century drama. I once read it and found it tedious, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “This Then That”

15.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

Per Oscarsson's performance in Henning Carlsen's Sult is one of the greatest performances in all cinema and a brilliant example of an actor expressing the unfathomable complexity of one man's state of being by performing simple actions scene by sc...

The Great Acting Blog: “Hunchback”

08.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,763 Comments

When an actor's performance is dull and plodding, it is usually because the actor is trying to supply a predetermined effect ( this may manifest itself as line readings [we've all heard the gag of the actor struggling to workout which word to stre...

Become That Person You’ve Been Looking For

01.09.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 56 Comments

“"It's the cinema I want to see. These are the films I am growing from seed. If we're talking about things like I Am Love, and the work I make with Luca or the work I make with Lynn Hershman, or even the work with...

Love Your Work

25.08.2010 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

I want to be a great actor, I've always wanted to be a great actor, and I've dedicated my entire life to that object. I've always loved the movies, I've always loved the magic of the movies. As a kid I would visit the Odeon...

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