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Five and a Half Acting Tips Not Taught in Drama Class
Jul 21st
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Check out Actingbiz.com’s Ruth Kulerman’s Five and a Half Acting Tips Not Taught in Drama Class
1. The Ubiquitous Omnipotnet Comma. (Dethrone Immediately.) Contrary to actors’ beliefs, commas did not descend from Mount Sinai, written on stone tablets. Commas are the domain of a reader, not a speaker. Commas replace the missing human voice whose intonation helps decode written language and make it comprehensible — a fancy way of saying, ignore commas when you act.
They belong on a page, not in a spoken line. Replace commas, not with pauses, but with vocal variety–or ignore the squiggly critters completely. Do not pause when commas cross your path. Slide right across them. We don’t talk in commas, so don’t act in commas either.
My slogan as the comma cop is DOWN WITH PAUSES CAUSED BY COMMAS!
1.5 The Pause the Exhausts. (Verbal exercise: stretch or leap.) There used to be a slogan for one of the soft drinks: “The pause that refreshes.” And yet in acting I have heard eighteen billion pauses, mistakenly believed to be dramatic or pregnant or sensitive or something. (“We find the defendant pause pause pause pause not guilty.”) London taught me: “You have to earn a pause.” Otherwise they are More >
Amanda Bynes to Retire from Acting at age 24
Jun 25th
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Actress Amanda Bynes made a stunning announcement via her Twitter account yesterday. The young actress shocked everyone when she revealed that she’s retiring from acting at age 24.
“I’ve never written the movies & tv shows I’ve been apart of I’ve only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play,” she wrote on her Twitter account on Saturday. “Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem,” she added.
Later in the day, Bynes tweeted, “I don’t love acting anymore so I’ve stopped doing it.”
At 13, she joined the cast of “All That,” a Nickelodeon sketch-comedy show that developed an adult hipster audience. That show spun off “The Amanda Show” (1999-2000), which led to the WB’s teen hit “What I Like About You” (2002-06).
“Auditions: 5% acting. 10% looks. 85% dumb luck”
Jun 18th
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Check out LA actor Lary Crew’s simple guide to auditioning:
“One thing I know: no one can really teach you what it’s like to audition. You need to DO it over and over again. Personally, I audition for anything for which I might be remotely right. On occasion, I even audition for something for which I am wrong, just for the experience of auditioning. The more I do it, the less intimidating it is. I audition for student films, TV shows, feature films and commercials because I consider auditions part of my education as an actor. To me, auditions are free acting workshops or rehearsals.
BEFORE Before the audition, don’t over-prepare, Remain flexible. You don’t know exactly what the casting director is looking for. Often, they’ll ask you to read the lines differently. If you’ve rehearsed just one way to do it, change will be difficult. Be comfortable with what you’re doing, but prepared to change.”
