Guillermo Del Toro’s website<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Have a great weekend everyone ;-). I did a very interesting couple of workshops this week: one with a casting director and one with a very experienced British Television director. As always, you realise that your view on a character may be millions of miles away from what ‘they’ are envisioning and this can be both a good or bad thing.<\/p>\n
I realised that television, even more than film, is full of stock characters and if I want to do a lot of television I had better learn to take the stock characters and then add. Stock characters such as the Comedia ones so the frisky maid, the grandfather etc. To take this further, for example in playing a lawyer, to use some of the standard lawyer TV tricks can really help (pencil rolling, paper shuffling etc).<\/p>\n
I am not sure\u00a0 how far I want to go in this, it is that trade off between being an ‘artiste’ and a commercial actor and why lots of actors and directors chose to make their own work. TV has to tell the story quickly and the audiences do not want to think as much, they just want to engage (yes there are notable exceptions eg the TV series LOST, but that very confusion as to what was going on was it’s USP.)<\/em><\/p>\nI guess we all get to chose where we want to draw the line on this. So I have some thinking to do!<\/p>\n
What is the project you are hiding from because of the work involved, the possibility of failure, the possibility that you are not good enough, technically or mentally able to pull it off. I have one such project staring at me down the barrel of a gun. However I know I have no choice but to start the process of brain storming about it at the very least.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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