All actors are liars

All actors are liars

Recently, as part of an acting class I've been taking, the course leader made a statement I'm not entirely sure I agree with. He said, "All actors are liars. The job of the performer is to convincingly lie in imaginary circumstances." Something about this statement inherently bothers me.

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5 Reasons Why Finding Your Own Acting Technique Matters

5 Reasons Why Finding Your Own Acting Technique Matters

We all know that there is one—a process, some technique that each one of us uses to find the underlying truth of the character, scene, etc. There is a trajectory that has to happen to connect the two dots of A) the real you and Z) the character on the page. Sometimes the distance isn't so far, and other times it feels like an impossible leap.

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