What choices and compromises do you make to gain attention and opportunities as an actor? Romola Garai has expressed a number of thoughtful perspectives on these topics. Here are some quotes from her imdb.com profile. On Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights : “I wouldn’t have done something that I thought had no merit in it at […]
Actors and Performers
Making people more aware of their inner world
In her novel about a late-19th-century actress, “In America,” Susan Sontag wrote, “She had loved being an actress because the theatre seemed to her nothing less than the truth. A higher truth. Acting in a play, one of the great plays, you became better than you really were. “You said only words that were sculpted, […]
Cynthia Bain on teaching young actors
Cynthia Bain has been training young actors for more than 10 years and has established herself as one the premier coaches and performance consultants. Her students include some of the top young performers in film and television. In our interview, she addresses a number of questions, including : How important is it for your students […]
Bonnie Gillespie on fame and redefining success
In her post Defining Success on the Showfax blog The Actors Voice, author and casting director Bonnie Gillespie writes about new actors lusting after fame. Here are some excerpts : Those who do become household names? They’re talented. Yes. That’s a given. Being even moderately successful in this industry requires a baseline of talent. Done. […]
Ellen Muth on living in the real world
Liev Schreiber once commented on emotional isolation as an actor: “Acting kind of insulates you from the world. Ironically you go into this job that you think is going to allow you to be expressive to people and to connect to the world. “And the more successful you are in a strange way, the less […]