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The Great Acting Blog: “An Acting Career Has Multiple Destinations”

02.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

An acting career is not about a moment, or a judgement. It's not about "making it" by a certain age. Our careers rarely unfold in the way that we thought they would. They rarely move along as quickly as we had hoped, our progress is rarely...

The Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro – You’re Always Lucky”

31.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

His myth was created during that run of films with Martin Scorsese in the 1970s, and augmented by Godfather Part II and later, Once Upon A Time In America. By the time he did Goodfellas in 1990, he was a fully fledged movie star. For...

The Great Acting Blog: “Destroy Career Ambivalence”

29.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 24 Comments

The danger for many actors is career ambivalence. This is a situation whereby they beaver away trying to get acting work but none is forthcoming. They end up with the bone-crushing insanity which comes from being dedicated to craft but without having the opportunity to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Choose Which Kind Of Actor You Are”

27.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The best people to work with are those who have taken the time to perfect their technique, who know how to behave in the professional arena. They have confidence because they know what they are doing. They display no affectations, they do not want anything...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Benefit Of Studying Our Heroes”

25.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

As we know, understanding what it is we're trying to do, understanding what our project is about, is crucial to making progress. Without that understanding we will be forever hamstrung in our efforts. One way of gaining this understanding, is by studying the work and careers...

The Great Acting Blog: “Work Shouldn’t Be Miserable”

23.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Focus on what you enjoy. This is especially true for actors, who are constantly being told things like; "yes, but you've got to do years of garbage work in order to get the chance to do the stuff you enjoy". Why exactly? Why must we continually...

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

20.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 26 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “What If?”

02.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

What if you produced one film [or play] per year, that would be enough to sustain you financially? You could write exactly the kind of script you wanted to do, providing yourself with exactly the kind of part you love doing. Your life would be dedicated full-time...

The Great Acting Blog: “Never Go Back To The Old Thing”

28.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

If you're searching around for the next thing, never go backwards. It's easy to return to that old director from way back when or that old theatre company or that old anything. It's easy to go back because we're retreading old steps, slipping into an...

The Great Acting Blog: “Alec Baldwin’s Island”

27.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Alec Baldwin, we might remember, is the actor who, in the mid 1990s, could have been one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but passed on that particular opportunity in order to play Stanley Kowalski on Broadway. I was struck when in a...

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