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The Great Acting Blog: “Lose The Self-Concern”

Having to pay close attention to what another person is saying to you, can be a bit of a pain. It requires real effort, real commitment and real discipline. We are suddenly putting someone else at the centre of our universe. It's much easier to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Discovering Artistic Fulfilment”

12.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It can be a shock when we see our performance on the screen for the first time. It rarely matches our concept of the role or what we thought we were doing at the time. What we are seeing on the screen is the reality...

The Great Acting Blog: “Improve The Little One Percenters”

18.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

One time, I was on my way to an audition but I hadn't provided myself with a drink for the journey. It was a hot day, I was riding the tube. I started feeling dizzy and decidedly nauseous, and I began to sweat heavily, so...

The Great Acting Blog: “Relax Until The Lights Come Up”

16.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 8 Comments

You can go over and over a performance in your head, you can practice a scene at home trying to compensate for the fact that the other actor isn't there, a million times. But does that help you? Or does it get you over-wrought, too...

The Great Acting Blog: “Perfectionism Kills Creativity”

16.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

Striving for excellence is a good thing, striving for greatness is even better. We all have a notion of what the perfect work we want to do is, and measure our own efforts against it. But perfectionism, tames us, it blocks us from ever going for...

The Great Acting Blog: “We Can See You”

12.06.2013 , Uncategorized , 5 Comments

You work will only be what you are. What you are everyday is what you will be on stage or infront of camera. Actors don't magically transform into somebody else when performing, and those who tell you that they do are taking liberties. We cannot hide...

The Great Acting Blog: “Blue Hair Actors And The Man With The Bloody Arm”

11.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

I was sitting on a step eating my sandwich, when a man approached me. He was clearly in distress, clutching his arm which had blood pouring from a gash. He asked me if I could spare any money to help him get a taxi to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Remarkable, Wonderful, Complex – Geraldine Chaplin In Alan Rudolph’s Remember My Name”

02.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6mamLdYraU Geraldine Chaplin plays Emily, who is released from prison after 12 years, and starts a new life working the check-out at a supermarket. Soon however, she begins to stalk a construction worker (Anthony Perkins), and we gradually learn that she was married to him before she...

The Great Acting Blog: “False And Dull Or Thrilling And True?”

29.05.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Whenever we make a big decision in life, it is always a gamble because we are not in full possession of the facts when we make that decision. It doesn't matter how much planning and researching we do, or how much experience we have, we...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Mysterious Gift”

22.05.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 4 Comments

I went to pay for my groceries at the store, and as the salesperson was bleeping my stuff through, she asked me if I wanted two bags or one. I was nonplussed. I didn't think the number of bags was determined by my preference, but...

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