A lot of the times, I tell you, you pick parts based on the amount of obstacles your character will have. Obstacles are interesting. What’s the obstacle to my character? And one of the things he talked about was listening. Ryan talked about listening and he’s right and backstory will give you how you listen,…
It’s great to get an Oscar. There are wonderful actors that don’t get Oscars. What happens when you get an Oscar? You have to wake up in the morning, you have to roll up your sleeves and you gotta work hard. That’s what happens, do you know what I mean? It‘s not that you gonna work…
breaking into Hollywood More so probably than any other business that has rejection to it – you know people will say no to you and they’ll say no many times. And you have to change how you hear the “no”. You can’t hear the no so that they crush you because there’s a lot of no’s…
Five Reasons Why You Should Learn the Meisner Technique I will first list the five reasons and then elaborate. You will 1) have significantly less performance anxiety2) be in the moment3) be a better listener4) be compelling because you’re unpredictable5) transform your life A fundamental tenant of the Meisner technique is that rather than focusing on yourself, often judging yourself and…
You will not achieve a electrifying performance by merely practicing acting, as odd as that may sound. The work you have to do is to make yourself more compelling as a person and that will translate to your acting. I am not saying try to be interesting, like saying interesting things, maybe adopting an interesting…