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Posts Tagged ‘acting category’

On Camera Acting Audition :: Precious’s Lead Actress

Posted by Dana Kaminski on 23rd November 2009 in Auditioning

Gaborey Sidibe Acts, For The First Time, At Her Audition For Precious

I’ll probably put this on the Actors Audition page later, but it just so boss! So I’m sticking it here with its very own page, as a post, first.
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I just am so flummoxed, and bedazzled, by this actress. She is one-in-a-million, and with no formal acting training! That just does not happen. Her natural sensitivity, attunement, and empathy toward others; must guide her acting abilities, fuel her acting instrument. A natural connection to the role and as she has stated, her familiarity with that type of girl. And just divine provenance!
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Her physicality creates such a beautiful paradox. For an actor, altogether. As an audience, we watch actors, really, to see what’s inside of them. You see nothing inside of her. Part of that is because the character, Precious, has never developed a connection to her own real self. Her own emotional self. As others support the inner Precious, and pull her out, Precious is also discovering herself.  At the  very same time, the audience is also discovering her.
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Imagine that kind of restraint, as an actress. The measuring, the meting out…of an emotional self as it blossoms at only a pace accurate to the story. Slower, than we in the audience can take. Not because it’s a slow movie, not at all. But, rather because the amount of restraint is in equal measure to the amount of injustice that this person, this child, has endured. Precious is played with such restraint, she is so buried in there, in that person so that she is barely found.  When the audience does find her, you just don’t want to let go.
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This video is absolutely not for children.

If you haven’t seen the movie, you may not want to see it yet, either.

UPDATE!!!

I have removed the PRECIOUS AUDITION VIDEO of Gabourey Sibide’s exceptional acting. If you would like to view it, this whole line is a link to where I originally found it. You can find it there. It starts automatically, which is a little tech issue that made it impossible to keep here.
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Next Post Will Feature Another Actor Who Has A Lead Acting Role In A Major Movie, This Year, Without Any Prior Film Credits…

He may just get an Academy Award Nomination.

I sure do hope Gabourey Sidibe gets one.

:~Dana
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Emmy Tech–New Cool Stuff Shows Actor Nominees

Posted by Dana Kaminski on 7th August 2009 in awards

Actors In Emmy Widgets, Actors In Emmy Flipbooks…

Look at these fun, new, techie, visual ways to see who is nominated… You can watch some of the better television acting performances right here; this widget shows the Emmy nominated performances.Emmy_Statue_atas I like that Variety, and ‘The Television Academy” is doing this kind of thing. Being inventive…current…fresh. Shows they’re loosening up, having some fun. To watch scenes from other nominated acting performances, you can find this widget on Variety’s Emmy Page.

Please send your actor friends to Hollywood Actor Prep.  Here’s a line to copy-and-paste in an email,  or on Twitter:

[http://www.hollywoodactorprep.com]

—Or simply use the techy widgets that I always have  at the end of every post—- Oh yeah, and please tweet this page!  (See the “t’ button ;}  ! )

Have a Wonderful Summer, ;~Dana

Chandra Wilson’s Surprise Acting Emmy Nomination :: Video

Posted by Dana Kaminski on 4th August 2009 in awards

An Acting Nomination?

Surprising the Emmy Nominated Actor About Her Personal Emmy Nomination

On camera! And before 7 AM!

Chandra Wilson, host of the 61 Emmy Nominations Announcement had no idea that she was going to be named as an actor nominee; even though they went through two prior rehearsals, with a teleprompter. (The Academy didn’t include her name on the teleprompter during the rehearsals; they snuck it in for the live broadcast.)

Let’s -go-to-the-videotape…

How About The ‘Glad Not To Be Nominated For An Emmy’

..And all the work that was ahead of her now, that she was a nominee?

Kind of unexpected, but I do believe her.

There’s hard work all along the way,  and at every level. And it is never just acting work.

–Just sayin’–

Two Little Facts About Chandra Wilson:

Her Emmy Nomination is for “Best Supporting Female Actor”, and Sandra Oh is also a nominee in the same acting category.

She was working in a bank when she got the role on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

Best Suporting Actor Nominee Chandra Wilson

Best Supporting Actor Nominee 61st Emmys Chandra Wilson

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–I may have a bit of an attitude, and I am sorry to have to add this in.

–Wait, no I am not.

It has not a thing to do with the Emmys, or acting nominees, or Chandra Wilson.

It has to do with the source of this video : Hulu.

And the commercials.

I will fill you in about this, tomorrow.

…With it’s own post, it will then get listed in the search engines…So that everyone, who is an actor, can access the facts.

Until next time,

:~Dana



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