Your weekly method acting blog To keep you at the top of your game The acting industry must be THE toughest industry in the world. Sometimes when I hear people say they want to be an actor I want to say to them ‘Are you sure? Are you REALLY sure? Is there anything else you …
When it comes to performing there are literally hundreds of bad acting habits lurking around at auditions, on stage and on film sets. These bad acting habits come in all shapes and sizes – some have logic and others don’t, but they usually rear their ugly head when an actor doesn’t know what they’re doing or …
Your weekly method acting blog To keep you at the top of your game As an actor you know the one question that keeps you awake at night is “AM I EEEEVER GOING TO MAKE IT?” We are fed time and time again, from many different people, words along the lines of “You’ll need a …
Your weekly method acting blog To keep you at the top of your game “Money makes the vorld go round, the vorld go round, the vorld go round… A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound that clinky clanky sound” Emcee and Sally Bowles sung these words in Cabaret in 1972 and they are …
1. To become a better actor you must not only continue learning the craft of acting (which is a lifelong process), but observe the actors you admire regularly. Go to the theatre, watch films/TV programmes that have your favourite actors in. Observe how they execute their craft. What can you learn from them? What are …
Your weekly method acting blog To keep you at the top of your game There’s one thing that makes actors and aspiring actors everywhere quake in their boots; causing sleepless nights, relentless worry, stress and in some cases dictating their life so much so it can cause severe unhappiness. It sounds like an awful disease doesn’t it? Split the word into two …
Your actors show reel is one of the most important selling tools you can have as an actor. Why? Because it is this that can be the deciding factor in whether you get your foot into the casting room. Your show reel will also be one of the deciding factors in whether an agent will call …
Auditions are like buses Landing auditions is only one part of a huge cog when pursuing an acting career. Some actors can go months without an audition then suddenly they’ll get a few at once. Actors can quite easily get sucked into the famine and feast cycle and not know how to break it. The dry patches …
Your weekly method acting blog To keep you at the top of your game We all know rejection is part and parcel of the acting industry. I don’t think I can name one actor or actress who has landed every single role they’ve auditioned for. It would be amazing if that happened, but the likelihood… I’ll let …
Networking ah good old networking. It is essential if you are to build up your contacts and build up relationships with those who have the power to cast you, but it’s also one of those things that, if you’re like me, you don’t like and to be quite honest aren’t very good at. I wish someone had …
