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Audrey Hepburn In Love In The Afternoon – Performance Is Personality

29.07.2018 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog Hepburn plays Arianne Chavasse, the daughter of a private detective who specialises in creating dossiers on illicit affairs for cheated spouses. Hepburn takes an unnatural interest in her father's work, delving into his filing cabinet and hungrily reading up on his juiciest cases....

The Great Acting Blog: “Your True Intention”

14.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 7 Comments

You cannot hide your true intention. Doesn't matter how you cloak it, it cannot be hidden - not from those people in your life, not from those you work with and mostly certainly not from the audience. Best to keep your intentions pure then. How to do...

The Great Acting Blog: “Problem Directors”

11.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 5 Comments

What happens when you have a problem with the director? He over-directs you , not giving you a chance to develop anything. He leaps on to anything you try and bombards you with notes. He blocks your creativity, putting you in misery, you dread even...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actions Banish Boredom”

01.06.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I recently attended a seminar where the speaker delivered his speech in a reasonable fashion - he spoke clearly, with a decent amount of force and seemed to know what he was doing. The only trouble was, he was, well ...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Actor’s Performance Is A Gift”

18.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

If you are the recipient of another's generosity, then you should be grateful. Too many mistake generosity for stupidity, and try to take more and more, as much as they can get in fact. In consequence, the generosity recedes as the giver senses, quite rightly,...

The Great Acting Blog: “In Life, Facing The Truth Is A Choice”

13.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

On stage or in front of camera we take action. We make that commitment to got for it and we just deal with whatever is thrown at us thereafter. In life away from performance however, we hesitate, we relentlessly go over our plans to the extent...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Occasional Performance Of Elegance And Dignity”

30.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 8 Comments

I used to think that the quality of our performance was determined by how hard we had worked. That is, the harder we worked, then the stronger our performance would be, it couldn't be good if it wasn't stressful*. But now I'm not so sure....

The Great Acting Blog: “Allow Nothing To Sway You”

18.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 26 Comments

The actor's job is to perform the actions of the character as they have been discerned in the script. That's all the actor needs to worry about. They don't need to worry about the other actor's performance, they don't need to worry about the costumes, or...

The Great Acting Blog: “It’s All You’ve Got”

11.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 13 Comments

Your performance may only be one part of the production, but it is all of your own work. You better make sure the end result meets your own satisfaction because when you look back, there can be no excuses - that's what you did, that's what your work'll be. You...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Lesson From Our Creative Work”

30.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Whenever we have a problem focusing on a task, we might, in order to get ourselves back on track, want to reflect on our creative work where there is usually no such problem. When we work on a script, we pick an objective which is exciting...

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