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The Great Acting Blog: “Professional Jealousy”

05.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Few professions take their toll on the self-esteem in the way that acting does. Afterall, everytime an actor is rejected (i.e. - not getting the role, signing with the agent, or meeting a casting director etc) it is their face, their body, their personality that...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Wait – Do The Work You Love Today”

17.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Actors are told that they must do what they're told, that they need to do years of work they hate before turning their attention to the work they really want to do. Like many rules in our culture, it's completely non-sensical, unfounded, and is designed...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Actor We Don’t Want To Become”

22.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

It's a very strange experience when you haven't seen an actor's work for a number years, and then suddenly you do, and it's obvious how much they've declined. Their old intensity and drive is replaced by a weariness, they are clearly not as focussed as...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do Something Really Special”

21.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Give the craft of acting the respect it deserves. Don't just be another taker who shows up because they can walk and talk charmingly, and hope to get lucky. Master a practical technique of acting which will hold up under pressure. Perfect your voice and diction. Don't...

The Great Acting Blog: “It’s Not Failure, It’s An Opportunity”

20.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Know this: Your acting career will not unfold how you thought it would. It will not fit the image you had in your mind. It will not move along as quickly as you would like. Your impact will not be as potent as you would have hoped. The world will...

The Great Acting Blog: “13 Acting Questions For The Coming Year”

14.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

As the end of the year approaches, it's time to renew the objectives of The Great Acting Blog. I've formulated some questions below for the year ahead, many are a re-iteration of what's gone on before, others have been reformulated and there some new ones...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Doing Bad Work Can Make Us Cowards”

30.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It is more than a little dispiriting when we hear an artist trying to justify their work, pleading as they do for special treatment. This usually takes the form of citing the extenuating circumstances under which the work was made, for example; "we did this...

The Great Acting Blog: “Integrity Works”

29.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

In response to my post on first principles, it seems that some have complained that integrity is impossible to define, that it means different things to different people, that it changes, and so how can one truly act with it? Well, the whole point is...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Understanding Prevents Under-Performance”

22.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

The better we understand our work, the more fun we can have with it. The number of expressive ideas available to us increases, and ultimately we become more excited about presenting our work to the world. That’s why basic script analysis is so important, it...

The Great Acting Blog: “Eliminate The Distractions, Be Great”

20.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Getting acting work, getting any acting work, is a tricky task, as we all know. The numbers just don't stack-up, there are far too many actors for the volume of work available. There are the gilded few of course, who are in demand and make...

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