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Posture Exercises For Actors-How Important??
So much of getting representation, and acting work, is about perception.
Even if unconsciously, you are being assessed:
Do you have dignity?
Integrity?
Gravitas?
Al Pacino’s Rare Interview :: Acting Prep For The Godfather + Much More
This interview is abundant with actor wisdom and information…Hope you find it as entrancing as I did. I do disagree with Katie Couric’s assertion about Pacino’s kinetic energy…
Continue Reading »Al Pacino's Rare Interview :: Acting Prep For The Godfather + Much More
This interview is abundant with actor wisdom and information…Hope you find it as entrancing as I did. I do disagree with Katie Couric’s assertion about Pacino’s kinetic energy…
Continue Reading »Fitness Trainers With An Actor Specialty
One of the things that they have developed is a way to get actors ready for award show season. They have specific exercises for posture, and teach how to stand when on the red carpet. I went and filmed them talking about it.
Continue Reading »Actors : What Goes On Film, Stays On Film
Act like a professional, in your regard and in respect to your career, with respect to your highest self. Learn to act like a professional actor. That’s why it’s called that. And when you are ready to put something out for the public, and for your future employers to see, make sure it is only at the level that your future employers will want to employ you from…and employ you over all the other actors. Skilled professional actors.
Continue Reading »Johnny Depp’s Method Of Actor Research, Acting Prep
But don’t be fooled by the common belief, about acting. Or the ease that the really great actors make it appear, in the end result.
That ease is a derived mastery. It is a magical, yes.
All magicians take time to prep. As do actors.
Johnny Depp's Method Of Actor Research, Acting Prep
But don’t be fooled by the common belief, about acting. Or the ease that the really great actors make it appear, in the end result.
That ease is a derived mastery. It is a magical, yes.
All magicians take time to prep. As do actors.
Casting Directors Advise Actors–On Video Widget
But you don’t have to worry about the validity of the casting directors widget, which I embed in the very next post. Yes, I see that a few of them do have products that they sell to actors, as of this year; that’s kind of a new thing. But at least, if their intent is to market their product, they are giving you some truly experiential expertise to get you to dish out the dough for whatever they are selling. They aren’t making up the advice out of thin air.
To my knowledge, April Webster, who cast LOST …
Johnny Depp’s Method Of Actor Research, Acting Prep
But don’t be fooled by the common belief, about acting. Or the ease that the really great actors make it appear, in the end result.
That ease is a derived mastery. It is a magical, yes.
All magicians take time to prep. As do actors.
Johnny Depp's Method Of Actor Research, Acting Prep
But don’t be fooled by the common belief, about acting. Or the ease that the really great actors make it appear, in the end result.
That ease is a derived mastery. It is a magical, yes.
All magicians take time to prep. As do actors.
Actor Michael Sheen’s Specific Technique :: Character Research
Actor Michael Sheen: What I am desperately looking for, is what it is like when they drop the mask.
What are they like when they are at home? Where people, sort of, betray themselves.
The most compelling thing about watching acting is when that happens. [VIDEO]
Actor Michael Sheen's Specific Technique :: Character Research
Actor Michael Sheen: What I am desperately looking for, is what it is like when they drop the mask.
What are they like when they are at home? Where people, sort of, betray themselves.
The most compelling thing about watching acting is when that happens. [VIDEO]
Funny stuff
Funny Videos :: Only A Partial Cop-out, From Dana
Why Might These Videos Have Value For Actors?
1. One of the most valuable things to do is to laugh. That’s my opinion.
2. It’s also a gift to be able to make people laugh. Funny Or Die has contributions some of the funniest actors and comedians.
2. Original Web Material. That looks…
Actor Ben Kingsley Auditions For Transformers 3, Heidi-Style
Academy Award Winning Actor, Ben Kingsley, Acted Like He, Too, Wanted To Be Noticed By Michael Bay……Whether or not there was a role for him, or even one available. Just like Heidi Montag.
(Remember her on camera audition, here, at Hollywood Actor Prep? If you didn’t see it already, that’s a link!)
The Handsome Club :: Handsome Actors + Jimmy Kimmel
What Handsome Actors are in this video?
Josh Hartnett, Ethan Hawke, Rob Lowe, Lenny Kravitz, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Dempsey, Tony Romo…
– JohnKrasinski shows his comic mojo–in his simple delivery of short lines.
Actress Marion Cotillard :: Skit For Maturing, Only…
This Comedy Sketch Is Not Intended For Anyone Under Age 12 [Video]
…Or whatever the puberty age is now…
The lead actor-appearing-with-breasts is former Oscar Nominee, Marion Cotillard…Other actors-with-breasts, also formerly Oscar Nominated, are Taraji P Henson, and Lesley Anne Warren.
Continue Reading »The Blind Side Skit :: Wanda Sykes
Oscar’s Best Leading Actress Winner Sandra Bullock Is Not In This Video Clip
– Hey, it’s a Sunday and it’s almost Spring. Shall we have a few laughs??
Performing :: My Video Of Richard Lewis Live
Another reason that I posted this is because it is Richard Lewis, onstage, in process. It’s not a memorized act, line-by-line. You can hear how he specifically chose material for this particular audience. Especially, I want to point out how loose he is. Onstage, he’s at home. He’s been doing this for years, and it shows. He’s also amongst peers…(VIDEO
Continue Reading »On-Camera Unexpecteds, Interruptions, And Other Wild Stuff
Funny Stuff Happens While Onstage, or Filming. It just does.
Sometimes it’s funny, rather; and sometimes not so funny.
If you are a performer, you will probably enjoy this. Quite a bit.
(Even if you are not a performer…)–VIDEO
12 Annoying Movie Cliche Terms — Eww.
My two least “faves” (may as well use the lingo, isn’t that just fab?)…(and oh, I am cringing as I avoid typing them) …are:
Terms Used To Describe Actors:
–Thesps– and –Starrers–.
Yes. I have read them. In Variety. And Other Perfectly Acceptable Publications. (Excuse me…I must now exit for a second, to throw up.)
12 Annoying Movie Cliche Terms — Eww.
My two least “faves” (may as well use the lingo, isn’t that just fab?)…(and oh, I am cringing as I avoid typing them) …are:
Terms Used To Describe Actors:
–Thesps– and –Starrers–.
Yes. I have read them. In Variety. And Other Perfectly Acceptable Publications. (Excuse me…I must now exit for a second, to throw up.)
‘Bad Actor Rap’ Video — It’s Quite Good
Bad Actor Rap video, really quite funny. If you’re an actor, you may like this a lot…
Continue Reading » Business of Acting
Next: A Professional Actor Tells How He ‘Broke In’ To Acting + Has Done So Well
About breaking into acting, about making success in the acting profession. The next post of LA Actor, Robert Wu, will not only inspire actors of Asian, or other specific types…this actor’s guest post will inspire all actors.
Continue Reading »Acting In Austin, Texas : Guest Post
When I met this Texas actor on Twitter, and I learned he lived in Austin; I was stoked. I’d been to Austin on a roadtrip back in my college days, where I had a wild weekend of live music…Many LA actors that originally come from Texas; buy an additional home there, after they start to make some real acting bucks. Directors like Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater live there…
Continue Reading »Asian Actor Feels Persistent Typecasting In Acting Roles
This Is A Guest Post By Asian-American Actor, And Novelist, Raymond K. Wong:
‘I could be a serial killer.
Or at least, as an actor, I could play one. There’s nothing inherently limiting about my abilities…’
Professional acting
10 Minute Actors Exercise Routine For Posture, And Core-Ab Muscles :: Video
Did you know that good posture makes people look more attractive, taller, younger, thinner?
And it also gives actors a confident, responsible, professional, trustworthy, durable, HIRE-ABLE presence.
You want to walk in as a stand-up kind of person. A reliable, accountable actor. [Video]
New Decade! (Streaming) –Sunday Brunch With Dana!
You think in ten years we will remember “streaming” and laugh? (Like: “Oh we thought we were so cool using ‘Streaming’… That’s like the dinosaur…”)
My first Sunday Brunch of the New Year is right here, and I think, on this January 3, 2010–that we all are pretty cool. There’s nothing more hip, than artists evolving in their craft, and getting smarter about how to do so, and be able to share it with the world.
In Acting Careers, In Life :: Never Failures, Always Lessons
One of the most beautiful things about acting, I believe, is that a professional actor can spend the rest of his or her life growing as an artist. I’m not sure other professions are like that. But, I wouldn’t know, either. Acting is the only real profession I’ve ever had.
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I agree completely with Valery. It’s not about “should”. It’s a personal choice. For example, I think it’s important to allow actors who wish to keep certain aspects of their lives private, the freedom to do so. In this day and age, I think so much that’s publicized about actors’ lives is TMI. I can understand why there are some who want the public to know as little as possible about them and keep the focus on their WORK.
Valery–
You have become a regular commenter to my blog. I appreciate you stating your opinion.
I had a visceral response to your comment that I’d like to respond with.
Would you be kind enough to list some of the actors who are out and gay. I am not sure that there ARE plenty. Are there? I can think of a few. Not a whole lot.
That being said, I also wonder how you are so sure with your absolute statement about Mr Everett. Do you know him? Or are you basing your assessment from the excerpts that I posted from The Guardian.
Who is the “you” to which you are talking to in this comment? Is it Mr Everett? Is it other gay actors? Is it me?
I wonder if you are saying that Mr Everett is not aligning himself with his own truth. He doesn’t appear to have any trouble with, clear expression–he does seem to do what you are directing the reader (?) to do in your comment. “Here to express himself fully and authentically.”
About your expertise about Mr Everett and your declaration about his struggle not being external with the industry–are you in the industry?
Are you an actor? I know you are a regular reader of my blog because you comment so frequently.
I must tell you that your comment perturbed me a bit. Not only because you wrote with such an arrogance about someone else’s situation; and people that judge others, especially with an attitude of visionary and superior status, is something that I find intolerable. Personally.
If you are qualified to be superior, I am willing to hear you side.
I also wish to state, with absolute kindness and openness to being wrong about the following:
Comments are welcome here if they are either from or for the acting community. My blog is for actors, by actors.
It is not a platform for free advertising. If you are using my blog comment area as a way to get attention for yourself, and some ancillary business then you are not being real and authentic here. If that is true, as it appears to me, then your comments are no longer welcome.
However, if you are an actor, or you feel that your comments are truly adding to the conversation and are contributing to this blog in an actor forum type of way, then please use the contact form above to state your case. I will gladly retract my statements here about what I consider your intent to be.
But if we do come to some kind of peace about what your true intent is when you comment on my blog, I will ask you, and anyone else who leaves a comment in the future:
You are welcome to your opinion, and to send it to me for publication. I have the right to accept or not accept any comments, and I usually put everything up, except spam.
I will not put up anything that is a superior judgment. If it is an opinion, even on someone else, fine. Then state is as such.
Clearly, this is a comment-about-posts on Hollywood Actor Prep form.Comments. Not an opportunity to market anyone’s services, or to do so under the guise of participating in a debate or conversation.
Unfortunately, even if the intention is better than that, I will, in the future, not post any comments that may seem to have an ulterior motive. Or have a double motive, to comment and to try to rev up some business or notice for yourself.
It’s important to me, to keep this blog an authentic place. There is a suffocating amount of marketing going on, on the internet. It’s already pushed a lot of people away from the internet, and I won’t let that happen here.
Sorry to have to single out your comments, and you, for this point; but frankly, I am offended. I am.
If you can show me that your intent was more valid than it seems, then I will write a retraction. And I am willing to chalk up the superiority of your assessment about Mr Everett’s problems as a miscommunication in your writing.
I am very protective of other actors, obviously. The journey of an acting profession is fierce. If I can make other’s more attuned and sensitive to that, then I have accomplished something here.
ALtogether, I wish more humanity, all the time, in our culture. We all judge each other so freely and so arrogantly. Mostly, it’s so apparent to me that he or she who is doing the judging, hasn’t the experience to do so.
1.Everyone should walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. That’s my blanket judgement.
2. I think we need to separate, once again, and create some kind of clear boundaries between business and pleasure. The motive of participating in a discussion is just that, unless you are doing so for another self-serving purpose. If so, then it ruins the truthful platform for everyone.
Thanks,
Dana
It’s not a question of “should”. NEVER allow any one or any thing (government, industry, etc.) ‘should’ all over you; determine what you can and cannot do. Always align yourself with your truth and highest good. You are here to express yourself fully and authentically.
There are plenty of gay actors who are out and very successful. Their sexuality does not limit their ability to succeed in their craft. There are others who are derailed by a multitude of circumstances, sexual preference is only one. Circumstances do not create your experience. It is what you have the circumstance, the event, the truth, mean for and about you and your world that creates the ultimate outcome of those events.
Rupert’s struggle isn’t external – with the industry – it is internal, with himself. With love and compassion it is up to each of us to allow another to find his or her own way in their personal journey.
people should be allowed to do whatever they want, this is the United States after all. having said that, acting is a profession, each person must decide what impact their personal actions will have on their lives. while its sad that many people are too insecure to accept homosexuality, their opinions may still have an impact on someone’s life. in that, it’s each person’s decision until we can help those who are unable to see past their bias.
Before I was entirely finished the final edit of this post, you wrote a comment. And may I say, that it thrilled me! Thanks for leaving a comment so promptly! I meant it when I said that I want this to be a discussion, and I welcome all comments. I do hope there are more. I thank you very much, for yours.
Dana