ACTING

Kimberly Hardin on Casting ‘Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland’

July 13, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

Navi had prepared for his role not just through his impersonations, but also through actually working as a body double for Jackson while he was still alive. Hardin explains how that helped him in his audition, saying, “It’s what every actor does for every role. The actor either has to learn how to develop their interpretation of who their character is, or study someone who is of that nature already. I’ve seen actors playing crack addicts that will go and hang out at a crack house. I have heard of actors doing it all to dive in and make it as real as possible. But if you’re portraying someone you don’t know, where do you go as an actor? I think that was the biggest challenge for a lot of the actors who came in to audition.”

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Josh McDermitt on His Career Path

July 11, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

One of the reasons that McDermitt believes kept him on his path is that he started pursing his career later than most actors. He explains, “I moved to LA a little later in my life than when most people move and I feel like I’m better for it. If I moved out at 18, I probably would have given up by now, but I guess it’s working out. It could all come crashing down at any moment and that’s something that I’m very aware of because that just happens. People stop working for whatever reason, and if I stop working I may continue plugging away or I’ll go do something else. I don’t care. (Laughs)… As long as you keep doing what you love, you’ll be happy. Right now, I still love acting, so I hope I don’t quit.”

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Johnny Depp Landed Life Changing Role By Accident

July 5, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

Although Depp is now one of the best-known and most respected actors currently on the movie scene, he originally had no intention of pursuing a career in acting. He wanted to make money with music and moved to LA follow his dreams. However, his career path took a turn when he accompanied a friend to the auditions for ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’. The director’s daughter took a shine to him, describing him as ‘dreamy’, and persuaded her father to cast young Depp in the movie. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Ashton Kutcher on Automated Acting

July 4, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

Ashton Kutcher doesn’t mince words when it comes to artificial intelligence and automation transforming every industry, even Hollywood entertainment.

“If you look at box office results on animated films, animated films continue to keep growing from a box office perspective. I think the more virtualization becomes real, you’re going to be able to create a person that looks and feels like a real person,” added Kutcher, who’s a tech investor in addition to being an actor. “It’s really hard still, but look at the number of animated characters in action movies today, where you get to the point and you go, is that a person, or is that animated?”

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Geoffrey Rush on his Role in Genius

June 29, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

The show, Genius, airs on National Geographic, and Rush tells NYT that he’s always been drawn to playing what he calls ‘outsiders:’

“I suppose I’m drawn to — I’d call them all outsider figures. In my theatrical repertoire, I rarely played the central character. I was not the young heroic model for “Hamlet.” I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.”

And what made him think that he could play Einstein in particular? Well, the answer is certainly amusing:

“I got a classic photo of the older Einstein. And I got a friend to take a photo of me and morph 15 percent of Einstein into my photograph to give me an indication [of how] to create a credible likeness. Then I got out a [marker] and put in the eyebrows, and some Wite-Out, and I drew in the halo of the hair. So that was my own audition for myself. I sent it to Ron [Howard, director] and said, “I think we can do this.””

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Elizabeth Rodriguez on Rehearsals

June 27, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

In your career, I imagine you’re either offered things or offered to audition for a ton of roles. What are the big things that you look for in a role? You play a lot of really strong women.

Elizabeth Rodriguez: I look for something I understand and that impassions me. People say, “Oh, this person is in it,” or “that person is doing it.” And that’s all kind of fantastic for a second, but it’s not gonna make you want to show up, especially 8-times a week when it comes to plays.

And I guess, I try to ask questions about, which I never used to, who the players are, who the director is? Is it an actor’s director? I think ultimately, I want to do work that speaks to me and it has to be realistic. I need to feel like the people I’m surrounded with are artists and want to do it for the sake of working, not for the celebrity of things. I don’t have a lot of patience for that.

I feel like, because I’m with a theatre company, I’ve been so blessed with being surrounded by so many talented people and being directed by really talented people and being inspired by them. And so, that’s what feeds me.

I think who we are as actors, we can’t have an objective perspective. When you’re directed by someone who is incredible, they have the ability to see it and explain it and bring you to it. It’s kind of amazing. Your brain almost snaps open and you hit a different level of consciousness within the character of understanding things. And that’s what I want to strive for because I don’t think anyone can get there on their own.

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Ben Platt on How He Found Himself

June 23, 2017 By Respiro E Movimento · Follow us: Facebook · Twitter · Instagram · YouTube

“It’s a daily thing that I’m still figuring out. What we all look for as actors are pieces that we want to throw ourselves into and make us want to give everything to, and I’m so in love with this piece of theater — I’ve obviously had four years to fall in love with it, but I mean, I couldn’t believe in it any more, and characters like this do not come around ever, where you get to use all the tools on your belt and really feel this synergy between you and the character. I feel a deep responsibility, as the person who’s administering the story every night, to give it at the same level each night. But I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I’m a human being and that days are different and that there are some days I feel better than others. It’s the kind of role that has taken over my whole life — as I’ve alluded to earlier, I have very strict regimens, as far as eating and sleeping and therapy and all that. It is a sacrifice, but the experience is all the sweeter because you’re making it, earning every last drop of it.”