Many approaches to acting ignore the emotional walls
actors bring to the work, promoting the idea that
pursuing objectives and playing actions will free you
from all your emotional blocks.
Learning to pursue objectives and play actions is a vital part of actor training, but often does not free an actor's talent if they are blocked. It sure would be nice if it were that easy.
There are hundreds of exercises that can liberate you from emotional blocks and inhibitions, but many acting teachers do not deal with blocks in their classes.
Are you sure you can move effortlessly into any emotional area required by dramatic material? Often, it is the most sensitive and talented actors who wall up and shut down.
It makes sense because the most sensitive and talented actors are the most tempted to escape their deeply felt experience of life – they have the most to escape from. It isn’t easy to stay open, relaxed and available. But it is a requirement if you want to be a great actor.
Acting is a tough profession. Pursuing an acting career is a constant battle. And most of us really want to get along with our fellow actors.
Learning to pursue objectives and play actions is a vital part of actor training, but often does not free an actor's talent if they are blocked. It sure would be nice if it were that easy.
There are hundreds of exercises that can liberate you from emotional blocks and inhibitions, but many acting teachers do not deal with blocks in their classes.
Are you sure you can move effortlessly into any emotional area required by dramatic material? Often, it is the most sensitive and talented actors who wall up and shut down.
It makes sense because the most sensitive and talented actors are the most tempted to escape their deeply felt experience of life – they have the most to escape from. It isn’t easy to stay open, relaxed and available. But it is a requirement if you want to be a great actor.
Acting is a tough profession. Pursuing an acting career is a constant battle. And most of us really want to get along with our fellow actors.
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We want supportive acting classes and to support one
another at auditions and on the job.
And we want to send the auditors the clear message that we would be very fun to work with in a rehearsal room eight hours a day for many weeks.
But many young actors are so busy pleasing one another that this wonderful trait spills over into their acting. Dramatic material is almost never about characters that get along.
If you want your acting to astonish, you must learn to be a polite professional off-stage while simultaneously creating WAR that is titanic while you are acting.
Many aspiring actors do not know how to do this. And a lot of writing today, especially for television, does not supply the kind of built-in conflict that characterizes great drama.
You just see lines on a page and the scenes don't seem too meaningful.
And we want to send the auditors the clear message that we would be very fun to work with in a rehearsal room eight hours a day for many weeks.
But many young actors are so busy pleasing one another that this wonderful trait spills over into their acting. Dramatic material is almost never about characters that get along.
If you want your acting to astonish, you must learn to be a polite professional off-stage while simultaneously creating WAR that is titanic while you are acting.
Many aspiring actors do not know how to do this. And a lot of writing today, especially for television, does not supply the kind of built-in conflict that characterizes great drama.
You just see lines on a page and the scenes don't seem too meaningful.
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