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The Great Acting Blog: “The Beautiful, Thrilling, Provocative Truth”

09.11.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

I hold an often ridiculed view that the scene the actor is playing can impress upon the his mindset. I don't mean that actor “becomes” the character – this is nonsense – I mean that the scene can influence the actor, for example: if the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Are Gamblers Who Live Out Many Lives, Intensely”

19.10.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 1,637 Comments

“The more success an actor has, the more he acquires the look of wax fruit; he is no longer devoured by life”. - Elia Kazan. Much of the actor's life can be, in turn, wretched, absurd, soul-destroying, exhilarating, humiliating, glorious, and he c...

The Great Acting Blog: “Reality & Illusion”

28.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 15 Comments

All stills by Rouzbeh Rashidi The Homo Sapiens Project is an ongoing series of personal video works by Rouzbeh Rashidi, who asked me to contribute to the project by talking about myself on camera for 40 minutes (few actors need to be asked twice t...

The Great Acting Blog: “Duologue”

25.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 90 Comments

Still by Rouzbeh Rashidi By the time Dublin actor Cillian Roche arrived to do our scene, I had already completed my monologues for Rouzbeh Rashidi's new feature film, He, and was feeling nicely warmed up thank-you very much. And, as with the monol...

The Great Acting Blog: “Great Acting Is Wrought”

07.09.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

I recently watched a film which, by all accounts, I should have loved: the precise full frontal camerawork, the pared back narrative, “gaps” in the montage which encourages the viewer to create the film in his own imagination, and I am always inte...

The Great Acting Blog: “Crissy Rock In Ken Loach’s Ladybird Ladybird

31.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 45 Comments

"Drama games wear very thin and an intelligent actor will soon resent being treated like a child" - Peter Brook In Ladybird Ladybird, Crissy Rock plays Maggie Conlon, a woman who has had four children by four different fathers. One evening, Rock l...

The Great Acting Blog: “The 52nd Post”

24.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

"Actors, by the nature of their calling, have a simpler, purer conception of art. They have dedicated their lives to individual, personal expression—to what you are calling “holding onto your mind’s eye view”—against all the bureaucratic and socia...

The Great Acting Blog: “Trial & Error”

10.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 76 Comments

When rehearsing a scene for the first time, it is important to make a start. I used to find this blindingly obvious notion extremely difficult, and couldn't bear to walk across the stage until I was solidly off-book and confidently understood the ...

The Great Acting Blog: “Exclude The Meaningless”

03.08.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

Devil And The Deep is an old Marion Gering film from 1932, and stars Charles Laughton as a submarine commander who is insanely jealous of any attention given to his wife, played by Tallulah Bankhead, so insanely jealous infact, that he drives her ...

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...

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