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Nanette
Celebrity Joined: 8/01/06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 399 |
Topic: taking your role too seriously Posted: 8/02/08 at 3:07pm |
Wow ... art imitates life!
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In a world of margarine, be butter!
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Ray Faiola
Walk-On Joined: 3/11/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 8/06/08 at 2:58pm |
A great movie about an actor's role overtaking him is 1948's A DOUBLE LIFE starring Ronald Colman. He plays an actor doing OTHELLO on Broadway and the intensity of his immersion has deadly psychological consequences.
Colman grabbed an Oscar and Shelley Winters made her first big splash in pictures. Of course, she made a much bigger splash 24 years later! |
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Ray Faiola
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DWolfman
Celebrity Joined: 7/07/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 134 |
Posted: 8/22/08 at 12:15pm |
While the impetus for this thread is quite a tragedy, maybe we can add stories of our own "method acting" moments:
Over the years I've played a few scurrilous characters - drunken cowboys, lascivious lovers, scheming murderers, abominable boors, etc - and I have a reputation for throwing myself into character. However, when my wife was recently asked by a friend which one she liked living with the least on the occasions they "slipped out" at home, I was surprised that none of the above were her choice.
She picked the "bumbling, forgetful, slow on the uptake" husband I played and won an acting award for. I didn't have the heart to tell her he probably wasn't "slipping out" but I'm just getting senile.
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Even a man who is pure of heart...
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imamember
Celebrity Joined: 8/18/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 121 |
Posted: 8/22/08 at 12:33pm |
I'm a character actor and also very outside to inside. Once I get my costume I'm consumed and it's hard not to act the part when not on stage. First thing I do after curtain calls is take it off otherwise i might scare of offend someone in the lobby by staying in character. it's honestly pretty hard for me to shed it without getting out of costume.
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pdavis69
Celebrity Joined: 3/26/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 437 |
Posted: 8/22/08 at 1:01pm |
The role that consumed me the most was Sam Byke in Assassins. Being him three hours a night, with the hate, depression and mental unstability left me exhausted every night with a raging headache. |
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Patrick L. Davis
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