This explains much, Mike. 😁 And now I'm picturing online discussions we've had with a Shakespearean accent. "What is this, a blaster, I see before my eyes?" "By the pricking of my thumbs, something eloquent this way comes." 😉
I played Corin the shepherd in As You Like It. I was given denim overalls and immediately took on a southern country accent for him. "That is the way to make her scorn you still!"
Thank you for letting us get to know you better! Acting is a storytelling genre. You might be telling someone else's story, but the acting of it can make huge differences. Just look at all the Hollywood failures because of the actors, or the Hollywood successes because of the actors, despite a poor story.
Fellow thespian, here! I wrote a LOT as a kid...then focused on other things because of percieved pressure to to "real" things. Then, in Drama school (UW, late 80s), I stuck with costume design, which I am legitimately good at, because of percieved pressure that it was more "legitimate" than acting, which I am pretty good at, too. It took professionals in both of those fields to slap me upside the head and encourage me to pursue what I'm suited to do, and then the intestinal fortitude to get off my butt and do it, but here I am, at 60. PS I find that the best actors are those with some actual life experience under their belts. So many actors have nothing to bring to a role other than years of studying the craft. They can be frustrating to direct, imo. Yay, you have a tool set. Good for you. Have you actually ever been shot at? Struggled with a tiller in a rough sea? Climbed a mountain? Punched somebody? Ridden a horse? Shot a real gun? Killed something? Done literally anything with your soft lil' hands? For so many the answer is "no". You, sir, can answer "yes".
This explains much, Mike. 😁 And now I'm picturing online discussions we've had with a Shakespearean accent. "What is this, a blaster, I see before my eyes?" "By the pricking of my thumbs, something eloquent this way comes." 😉
I played Corin the shepherd in As You Like It. I was given denim overalls and immediately took on a southern country accent for him. "That is the way to make her scorn you still!"
GySgt. Ermey would be proud. Keep it up.
Thanks! Those are some big shoes to fill!
Thank you for letting us get to know you better! Acting is a storytelling genre. You might be telling someone else's story, but the acting of it can make huge differences. Just look at all the Hollywood failures because of the actors, or the Hollywood successes because of the actors, despite a poor story.
I tell people all the time that theatre taught me everything I know about storytelling.
Fellow thespian, here! I wrote a LOT as a kid...then focused on other things because of percieved pressure to to "real" things. Then, in Drama school (UW, late 80s), I stuck with costume design, which I am legitimately good at, because of percieved pressure that it was more "legitimate" than acting, which I am pretty good at, too. It took professionals in both of those fields to slap me upside the head and encourage me to pursue what I'm suited to do, and then the intestinal fortitude to get off my butt and do it, but here I am, at 60. PS I find that the best actors are those with some actual life experience under their belts. So many actors have nothing to bring to a role other than years of studying the craft. They can be frustrating to direct, imo. Yay, you have a tool set. Good for you. Have you actually ever been shot at? Struggled with a tiller in a rough sea? Climbed a mountain? Punched somebody? Ridden a horse? Shot a real gun? Killed something? Done literally anything with your soft lil' hands? For so many the answer is "no". You, sir, can answer "yes".
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