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The Great Acting Blog: “Pressures And Distractions?”

24.08.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 6 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175659470" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] On the set of Marcel Carne's Les Enfants De Paradis, 1945.[/caption] Marcel Carne's 1945 film, Les Enfants Du Paradis, is set in the Parisien theatre of the 1840s, a world teeming with "hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers". It's an...

The Great Acting Blog: “Are You Being Courageous?”

03.07.2014 , Uncategorized , 0 Comments

Being courageous is only temporary. An act which required courage from us six months ago, may be easy for us now - having done it, it holds no fear for us. We must every so often then, look at whether we are taking action which requires...

The Great Acting Blog: “Our Secret Self”

29.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 26 Comments

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” - Jean-Luc Godard If, in your work, you're trying to move people, if you're trying to end their isolation by creating connection with them, trying to unite audience member with audience member by revealing...

The Great Acting Blog: “What Kind Of Work Do You Want To Put Into The World?”

20.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

If you put out true work, work which strives to make a genuine connection, work which is made lovingly and with care, then it will be of interest to an audience who wants all of those things. The reason great artists, who produce extraordinary work,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Generosity Drives Our Finest Work”

12.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Mass media is driven by coercion rather than by generosity - preposterously budgeted movies are marketed to us with such aggression, with such force and profligacy, that we go to see them more out of fear than any real interest. These films do not offer...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do What Brings Out The Best In You”

08.01.2014 , Uncategorized , 4 Comments

We too often go with the flow. We too often do the thing that is pragmatic and practical and reasonable but which does not necessarily inspire us. Consequently, we sort of trudge through it, without joy, and our results are very often less than spectacular. We...

The Great Acting Blog: “Great Actors Love Personal Truth”

07.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

The inability, or unwillingness, to examine oneself and what one has done, is the sign of a deep sense of personal worthlessness. Truthful reflection is impossible because if what one finds is not to one's liking, then an existential catastrophe may ensue. In acting, this...

The Great Acting Blog: “Work Shouldn’t Be Miserable”

23.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Focus on what you enjoy. This is especially true for actors, who are constantly being told things like; "yes, but you've got to do years of garbage work in order to get the chance to do the stuff you enjoy". Why exactly? Why must we continually...

The Great Acting Blog: “Eliminate The Distractions, Be Great”

20.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 30 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: “Why It’s Better To Be Serious Than Fake”

18.11.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 66 Comments

The neophyte actor wants validation, whether that comes via an agent, a casting director, a director, a filmmaker, other actors, it doesn't matter so long as it comes from whoever they want to please at the time. This, I believe, is the normal state of...

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