creative individuality Tag

The Great Acting Blog: “The Trademarks Of 12 Famous Actors According To IMDB”

23.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Some of these are sweetly naive, and their bluntness renders them somewhat absurd, but nonetheless they offer a fascinating distillation of the actors themselves. The trade-marks are as much to do with the actor's own nature and what they bring to each role, as they are...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Director Must Allow The Actor To Rebel”

30.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Following on from yesterday's post about how acting is a form of rebellion, we can now see why the creative decision-making for a performance must finally rest with the actor himself and not with the director. Working on a script or simply improvising, the needs of...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Good Director”

25.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The good director understands that his idea of the way a certain moment in a scene should be played, is only one person's view, and that it may not even be the strongest. He knows instinctively when to back off an actor's performance. If an actor...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Not Puppets”

25.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

For the actor to do his best work, the optimum conditions for him to do so need to be created within the production. If the director is all over the actor, if he wants to control him, then the actor will not do his best...