Hello Everyone!
Thank you to those who have left me a Google review and for spreading the word about my classes.
(If you haven’t yet, I’d really appreciate it!)
Larry Moss is offering online classes. Email me if you want me to forward you all the info. It’s expensive to take, but good for your resume if you get in. If you can afford it, I also recommend auditing two classes to see the progression in the work.
Here’s the 4th of my ABC’s of acting inspirational thoughts
4 | Always Be Connecting
When actors begin to work on a character and script, they often find individual and sometimes unconscious ways of connecting to the material. To begin this process, we sometimes consciously explore connections to what we intuitively understand to be the underlying meaning of the script. We explore similar or analogous events – to places, people in our lives or reactions to people we’ve met, read about, or known.
Most of us close off or guard these intuitive reactions in daily life, but our artistic natures recognize that our deeply felt personal experiences and viewpoints are the fodder for our work. So we follow our intuitions and delve into what our unguarded responses really are or would have been and act them out in various permutations. Finding our own way of doing this or finding a teacher who helps unblock us to ride the waves of feelings that sometimes seem contradictory, while speaking the lines in a natural way, liberates us to make interesting choices and gain even more freedom in the work.
Viewing Suggestions
Riveting work by all involved: John Hamm, Juno Temple and Jennifer Jason Leigh
Absolutely binge-worthy!
Beautiful performances by all – especially newly-discovered young actor Dominic Sessa
Great Scorsese film and so good to see De Niro and DiCaprio together again!
Natalie Portman, Julianna Moore, Charles Melton and others are superb in this twisted, complicated, comedically creepy story.
Absolutely creative and brave, if flawed and sometimes frustrating directing by Bradley Cooper. But it’s worth seeing – especially if you are a fan of film and filming history. The acting by Bradley Cooper as the complex genius, Leonard Bernstein is also very brave, while Carey Mulligan gives a beautiful deep performance.
I’m watching a lot of old films on TCM. It’s such a great education for actors to see the acting, writing and filming styles of those who went before us.