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The Great Acting Blog: “The Paradox Of Authenticity”

08.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

We've all seen movies which contain scenes where the star actor is playing the piano, and at some point the filmmaker decides to pull back and reveal to us that the actor really is playing the piano, that he's not faking it. It's heartwarming to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Great Actors Are Excited By Great Acting”

04.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When we work towards a goal that excites us, that we absolutely want to accomplish, then discipline ceases to be an issue, we do what needs to be done. I am always stunned by actors who find line learning to be a chore. Sure it's not...

The Great Acting Blog: “Complex And Meaningful – Alec Guinness In Last Holiday”

23.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 77 Comments

Guinness plays downtrodden salesman, George Bird, who is given only a few weeks to live after being diagnosed with a rare condition called Lampington's Disease. He decides to enjoy what remaining time he has left, so he quits his job, withdraws all his money from...

The Great Acting Blog: “Courageous Acting”

21.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 80 Comments

The obsession with "doing emotions" in modern acting is little short of a disaster. It paints the character (and therefore the actor) as a victim, stripping him of dignity. Further, when an actor tries to squeeze emotion out of themselves, they turn inward rather than...

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 Acting Could Be – I Review My Life In Pieces By Simon Callow”

19.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 25 Comments

I stumbled, some years ago, upon Simon Callow's Being An Actor, an autobiography of his first nine years as a professional actor. It revolutionised how I understood my own experience as an actor, leading to a comprehensive re-think about my approach to building a body...

An Essential Performance – Kati Outinen In The Match Factory Girl | The Great Acting Blog

13.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 5,938 Comments

Kati Outinen is a essential actor in the films of Finnish auteur, Aki Kaurismaki, appearing in no less than ten of them. She is one of the foremost exponents of the peculiar dead pan, minimalist acting found in Kaurismaki's films, where he often prohibits the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Five Great Actors On Acting”

09.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 9 Comments

These quotes don't offer any easy inspiration but there is a truth in them, even if that truth is sometimes opaque or requires thinking about over time. What they allow us to infer is important, for example, Delon appears to be saying something personal, and...

The Great Acting Blog: “Why Charles Laughton Is An Example To All Of Us”

03.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

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The Great Acting Blog: “Simple Cinema Is The Actor’s Friend’

18.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

This week, I had the sheer joy of watching not one, but TWO Hong Song Soo pictures at the theatre. Nobody's Daughter Haewon was the first of his films to ever receive a UK theatrical release. The double wammy happened because he made two films this year, and...

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