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The Great Acting Blog: “There Is No Such Thing As A Transformational Actor”

24.06.2020 , The Great Acting Blog , 12,377 Comments

“There is no difference between what I experienced, and what is on screen”. Emmanuelle Beart on her work in L'Histoire De Marie Et Julien. Emmanuelle Beart has long been one of my favourite actors – if she's in something, then I'll watch it – infa...

The Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro Notes”

02.01.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 12 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...

The Great Acting Blog: “Exquisite – Tony Curtis In Monte Carlo Or Bust!”

05.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 134 Comments

Monte Carlo Or Bust is a wonderful, light ,fluffy affair, and contains an ensemble cast which includes the delights of the likes of Terry-Thomas, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It's about an international car rally, where the drivers must reach cert...

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: “Will It Stop Raining In Summer”

29.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Possible location for Will It Stop Raining In Summer Will It Stop Raining In Summer will be our next short film. It's a love triangle thriller, about Roger, who is having an affair with Beryl, but every-time they meet-up, Beryl's husband, Maurice,...

The Great Acting Blog: “A True Actor-Director Collaboration”

29.02.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Boredom Of The Disgust & Monotony Of The Tediousness, is a film made up of a series of scenes but there is no through-action – they are linked because each of them is about cinema itself. The film has documentary scenes (as discussed in Part...

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