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…
By Michelle Danner As an actor, you are always training regardless of whether you are seasoned or just starting out. You want to say, “I have a craft.” You are always in the pursuit of sharpening your tools. You are looking to keep your instrument alive responding, open to stimuli. Actors depend on having an instrument…
Teaching acting versus directing actors. I think first of all teaching and directing are two different things. And I differentiate them. I try very much not to direct when I teach. I will tell the students that I´m going to directorial right this minute. But teaching is empowering your students to be able to learn…