Judy Dench describing perfectly how her work is actually 100% demidovian
She is letting her subconsciously work !
The Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg (By Robert H. Hethmon)
In recent years, visitors to New York seeking serious theater inevitably find themselves drawn beyond the glitz of Broadway and Ninth Avenue to a humble, two-story church building in a neoclassical Greek style. Surrounded by drab apartment buildings, it sits just a few feet back from the sidewalk, enclosed in front by black-painted iron railings. […]
Movie Night
I started watching a movie on Netflix last night, just something new to relax something stupid like an action movie to wind down before bed. I found one classic simple revenge story on Netflix….but two minutes in “this guy” that was it “hooked” for the whole stupid movie. This guy might be what Hollywood will […]
“Technique-unfaithful”
At S.A.M., we honor tradition. We respect all existing methods and techniques. However, we constantly challenge the rules to create new approaches. The idea that actors should be “technique-unfaithful,” exploring various disciplines and methods, is not groundbreaking, but it remains essential. Anyone who has set foot on stage or worked in diverse environments knows that […]
Orson Welles on Acting and Directing
A somewhat heavy opinion by the beast named orson, but then again a director should be a complete actor, a complete writer, a complete Cameraman etc…
Orson Welles on cold reading
One could listen to Orson tell stories all day long. Ιn this one he talks about the phenomenon of “cold reading”, its not the technique of cold reading for auditions, but cold reading that fortune (fake) tellers use to scam their victims…
AUDITION AND OTHER SCARY STUFF
Michael Shurtleff, the man who discovered Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, and many others, writes in his classic book “Audition”: “[…] it is possible for the auditioner to get himself into such a healthy frame of mind that he enjoys auditioning. It gives him a chance to show his stuff, to practice his craft, to give himself […]
ONE LINERS Part 3
“The capacity to take infinite pains is the most intelligent definition of genius.” This is not an easy job, actually let me rephrase that, this in not an easy art from and the environment sucks…most of the time the director is crazy, the partner is a narcissist or plain unprofessional, the director is a control […]
ONE LINERS Part 2
This time lets go back to even older times still ine the “modern acting” era but before the 1920’s, keep reminding yourself that one-liners hold in them a natural truth or better yet a true observation, but they are truisms, also some might repeat, this is because we might find them in different teachers, why […]
ONE LINERS Part 1
Wynn Handman, Meisner’s right hand (Hand-man — See what happened right there? ) and protégé for many years (if you want to learn more about this see the documentary “it takes a lunatic”) used to say in interviews that Meisner was pretty good at giving one-liners (our Greek: tsitata) to his students, you know the […]
