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The Great Acting Blog: “Be A Serious Actor”

12.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 11 Comments

"No matter how good a phrase or a simile he may have if he puts it in where it is not absolutely necessary and irreplaceable he is spoiling his work for egotism" - Ernest Hemingway Hemingway on writing there. But the words could just as easily...

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The Great Acting Blog: “Focus On Action Not Emotion”

13.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Focussing on emotions in the scene really only succeeds in making us feel self-conscious. If the desired emotion is not present, then we engage in neurotic efforts to "produce" it. And when the magic emotion does appear, we remain self-conscious while we try to maintain...

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The Great Acting Blog: “A Dazzling Intensity”

13.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

Enthusiasm, energy and focus go an awful long way to convincing somebody of your case, or in getting them to do what you want them to do. You can make sense and appear to be reasonable, but this has less effect if you lack...

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The Great Acting Blog: “What Is Going On Here?”

10.04.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Being an actor is about being a student of human behaviour. Actors spend a great deal of their lives analysing scripts, or, to put it another way, they spend a great deal of their lives trying to work-out just what the hell is going on....

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The Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro Notes”

02.01.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 16 Comments

De Niro offers practical advice here, which means alot coming from an actor of his stature, and especially him I suppose, because so much theoretical voodoo has grown up around his work, in order to explain away his performances - the truth is, ac...

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The Great Acting Blog: “Only Worry About Action”

16.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Check out this quick teaser for our new short, Phone Box Gun. My action in the scene above, was to get my scene partner to agree with me (within the fiction of script, this amounted to Bob getting Vincent to let him buy him a...

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The Great Acting Blog: “A Response To Otar Iosseliani’s Comments On Actors’ Aura”

04.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 35 Comments

“I cant stand intimate scenes in cinema...

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The Great Acting Blog: “The Paradox Of Acting – Boredom Of The Disgust And Monotony Of The Tediousness” – Part 2″

27.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 25 Comments

Check out the trailer for our new feature film, part video essay, part fiction. Having completed the documentary scenes for the film, we moved on to the fictional scenes. First up, I was to have an argument with somebody who wasn't in the room, bu...

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The Great Acting Blog: “Performance Without Rehearsal”

17.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

As I noted in the previous blog, there were no speeches or dialogues to motor my performance because all of that work had been completed in Dublin. In Cork, I only had my face and body and pure physical actions to express myself with. As...

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The Great Acting Blog: “The Audition Lowdown”

18.01.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

Check out a clip from the film, above. For those unfamiliar with the film, The Audition is about an actor, Tony Wallis, who is being seen for a part in a play. He breaks the ice with his interviewer then starts to speak the lines...

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