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The Great Acting Blog: “Mindboggling – Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler”

19.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

Tony Curtis plays Albert DeSalvo, who is picked up by the cops on a breaking and entering charge, but when the judge rules Albert is not of his right mind, he is institutionalised where psychiatrists diagnose him with a multiple personality disord...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Insecure Actor”

15.08.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

I was stunned recently when a colleague of mine, whom I had had a very good relationship with until this point, casually slighted me in public. At first, I was in disbelief because the slight apparently came out of nowhere, and then my survival in...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Joy Of Acting”

08.08.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

The characters in my latest short film, Will It Stop Raining In Summer (currently in post-production), are all written “in the style of”, or at least the male characters, Maurice and Roger, are. Roger is having an affair with Maurice's wife, and t...

The Great Acting Blog: “22 Principles For Better Acting”

01.08.2012 , Uncategorized , 30 Comments

"Learn your lines, find your mark, look `em in the eye and tell `em the truth." - James Cagney As I come to produce my next short film, my mind is a-clutter with dozens of small details which can pre-occupy to the exent that my...

The Great Acting Blog: “Acting Weird”

25.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

The actor should always allow the context within which the scene takes place to do it's work. Below is an extract from the script for our new short film, Will It Stop Raining In Summer. Beryl is married to Maurice, but having a secret affair...

The Future Of Acting | The Great Acting Blog

18.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 188 Comments

“we have to be optimistic. The moment actors start thinking otherwise, they're dead. You simply have to believe you have a future.” - Peter O'Toole. Peter O'Toole is a god of acting, he is a great actor, his performance in Becket is one of my...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Need To Reclaim Acting – Lessons From EA Dupont’s Piccadilly”

11.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

EA Dupont's silent era masterpiece, Piccadilly, is set in a fashionable London nightclub, and is about an exotic dancer, played by Anna May Wong, whose routines lead to her becoming the toast of Jazz-Age London. She also becomes the erotic obssesi...

The Great Acting Blog: “Authenticity”

04.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 16 Comments

A few weeks ago I watched Milos Forman's debut, Audition. An early example of the Czech New Wave, shot in 16mm, the film is essentially a faux-documentary split in two parts; the first centres on the rehearsals of a group of amateur musicians prep...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why The Panic Set In, by Alfie Black”

02.07.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 22 Comments

Alfie Black is a London based actor. Throughout my career I have never really suffered any panic attacks whilst performing. That was of course until I filmed the pivotal interior scene from Phone Box Gun. Even though I originally met the writer/di...

The Great Acting Blog: “Marjo-Riikka Makela’s Response To My Blog On Why Actors Quit”

23.06.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 25 Comments

I am delighted to be presenting to you Marjo-Riikka's response to my post, Why Actors Quit. It is passionate, and full of wonderful insight - really a must read. Marjo-Riikka is a US based Finnish actress and founder of the successful Los Angeles ...

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