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The Great Acting Blog: “In Movies, Not In Front Of Them”

10.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

I am always dumbfounded whenever I come across an actor who has failed to prepare properly for a scene. It's astonishing because it denotes a lack of interest in the project at hand and in acting generally. What else are we to conclude when you...

The Great Acting Blog: “True Dedication Not A Fraudulent Pose”

08.07.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

True dedication is about being properly focussed on the work as oppose to merely shrugging. It's respecting the craft and the effort of your colleagues. True dedication springs from love. Pretenders love nothing but themselves and are dedicated only to their need to have. Part...

The Great Acting Blog: “Become The Expert”

10.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 7 Comments

Too many actors complain about their life, they complain that they aren't being treated fairly, that they aren't getting enough work, that they aren't getting enough opportunities to get work, that the work they do get doesn't interest them (the script's garbage, the director's an...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Are You Trying To Achieve?”

05.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 46 Comments

Somebody said we should measure improvement by the increase in volume of work we put out - ergo, if our volume is getting less and less then we are declining. Others have said that they don't measure improvement at all, that for them, acting isn't...

The Great Acting Blog: “Know What You’re Doing And Know What You Want”

08.05.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 9 Comments

"Nobody respects us". - Something I overheard an actor saying this week. The director-actor relationship is unique. During the course of his work, the actor makes himself incredibly vulnerable, which is to say he loses his self-consciousness (which is a tool for protecting the self) in...

The Great Actin Blog: “Fear Of Failure”

20.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Commitment is a tricky thing. At the moment just before we need to commit, our minds suggest all kinds of alternatives as preferable to the thing we are about to commit to. One of the reasons commitment is so hard, is because we are putting...

The Great Acting Blog: “Fear Of Failure”

20.02.2013 , Uncategorized , 1 Comment

[twitter-follow username="ejamesdevereaux" scheme="dark"] Commitment is a tricky thing. At the moment just before we need to commit, our minds suggest all kinds of alternatives as preferable to the thing we are about to commit to. One of the reasons commitment is so hard, is because we...

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