“It makes you extremely directable, because you can go in any direction. You’re equipped with an arsenal of ideas and you can take on anything the director throws at you. There’s no such thing as being overly prepared.”
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The Brutalist Director Says the Film Has Made Him 'Zero Income' — and Other Oscar Nominees 'Can't Pay Their Rent'
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Too true... "Some Young People Think ‘Being an Actor Is Protein Shakes and Going to the Gym"
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"...some producers, they hand me a sheet with the amount of collective followers I have to get of the cast [...] so if you delete your Instagram, and I lose those followers, understand that these are the kinds of people I need to cast around you."
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"Movements emerge from groups of artists having the time, money and freedom to work and think together [...] as public subsidy has shrunk and theatres have grown more risk averse as a result, those spaces have disappeared, and so have theatrical movements."
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David Lynch spent the last portion of his life in isolation. He said it was due to being high-risk and unable to risk getting COVID.
He’s not the only person with disability or illness who’s been left behind.
Everywhere you go without an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong.
"Theatre [...] is an artform that is brilliantly critical, and can use empathy to stand up stories that show how big issues affect small people. So should we be searching for a right-wing voice? Is it our job to represent a voice we don’t agree with?"
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Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
"The truth is the entire game is about creating an illusion, and for whatever reason, and mad as it may sound, some part of me can allow myself to believe for a period of time without questioning, and that’s the trick.”
-Daniel Day Lewis
Focus your energy on doing, not being. Avoid distraction by having something powerful to do. Focusing on emotion in preparation trains you to be inwardly focused in performance. You want your energy and attention focused on doing something, on the other, accessible to us all. It makes you dynamic!
The way you learn your lines determines a great deal about how you communicate them in performance. Learn the words and what they mean, understand why you're saying them and what you're attempting to do with them. Don't try to cultivate emotion. The emotion comes as a result when the time comes.
