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4 Ways to Make Your Own Luck

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Here are four ways you can help create your own luck:

Don’t procrastinate. You have a thought of an idea, so act on it immediately. Trust yourself that idea will create something for you. It always does!

Create your own projects. Shoot a short with your iPhone and upload it to YouTube or Vimeo. Have a reading at your house and invite some people to help create a performance atmosphere. This type of energy will always open doors for you.

Always be reading. Read out loud and read to educate yourself about the world. It will spark inspiration in your creativity and give you ideas to create your own projects.

Always be auditioning. If you’re not getting called in, audition yourself so that you can be ready. You can’t expect to have a good audition when you haven’t placed yourself under pressure in weeks. Put yourself on tape, send it to a friend, and work on your monologues with a friend.

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Is Jake Gyllenhaal an Art House Actor or a Blockbuster Star?

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Perhaps Gyllenhall is all of those things, and more — it’s hard to describe an actor who often stars in films like Life that open in thousands of theaters as well as films that open in one.

That “preparation” often includes significant changes in his body, whether it was bulking up for Prince of Persia and Southpaw or slimming down for Nightcrawler. It’s an aspect that Gyllenhaal and his sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, disagree on. He reveals, “My sister and I have this argument often. I’ve lost weight or learned a new skill and she’s said: ‘You don’t have to change your body to play a character,’ and there are times where I agree and other times I don’t.”

One of the reasons why Gyllenhaal feels it is necessary is because it helps in the creation and understanding of a character. Gyllenhaal explains, “It seems to me that anybody feels they can be an actor nowadays… People say: ‘How hard can it be?’ But the truth is, the creation of a character, the understanding of human behavior, is a craft and to be learned and worked and experimented with and discovered. My favorite actors are like artists, and when you see their career, you see someone who is able to actually physically draw a perfect figure and then deconstruct it, or not, based on a foundation of skill or practice. Whereas I noticed that some people just throw some paint up on the wall and call it art.”

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What To Do When the People Around You Aren’t Supportive

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If the people around you don’t support you, remember the following:

  1. You can do this without them.

It’s a huge help when the people around you support you- it makes it a lot easier, but you need to know that your success is down to you and you can choose to be held back by other people’s opinions or you can choose to trust in yourself enough to not need other people’s approval. Work on building yourself up and spend more time with people who DO support you.

  1. They see the world in a different way.

If someone is insecure, they may project this onto you. It could be jealousy and bitterness due to you being a reminder that they are not where they want to be or it could be genuine concern due to their beliefs based on the things they have seen, heard and experienced- this doesn’t mean it’s true. Do not let other people’s beliefs become your reality.

  1. You can fail at what you don’t want.

When I was 16, I was fired from my job in a wire factory. Spending 10 hours a day cutting wires is definitely not what I aspired to do with my life but I still failed, and I’m really thankful for this because it taught me that I might as well take a chance on what I did really want. 3 weeks later I had moved to Leeds to study dance and drama and had started my (very rocky) journey along my true path.

  1. You never know what’s around the corner.

You might tell yourself that they need more time to get their heads around it, you’ll stay in your cozy little box for a little bit longer- just to keep the peace, you’ll definitely do it soon… Once you can get them to understand. But the thing is- time is the most precious thing in the world and things can change in an instant. Do you really want to risk looking back and wishing you had gone all in and wondering what could have been if you had?

  1. You are not responsible for other people’s happiness.

I repeat: YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S HAPPINESS.

David Oyelowo on Staying in Character During Filmming

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Oyelowo reveals that he often uses a mix of approaches when acting. He says, “With Dr. King in Selma I had to ‘go over there’ to fully get to him. Another film I did called Nightingale was another performance in which I couldn’t be me. For A United Kingdom, I felt more access to it. Yes, I had to build his accent and physicality, but it was accessible enough to feel I didn’t need to be in his persona moment to moment.”

Staying in character can sometimes place an actor in curious situations. Oyelowo brings up an example from when he was shooting Selma. He recalls, “The weirdest thing, because I stayed in character for the three month shoot, that it got to the point where one night I was doing something simple like brushing my teeth and looking in the mirror – and I couldn’t see myself. It was very freaky experience, to the point in which I had to leave the bathroom. Who I am had dissipated in a disturbing way. It’s amazing what the human mind can do, when inhabiting a certain place for long enough.”

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It’s Boom Time For Older Actors But How Realistic Are Their Roles?

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At the National Theatre, Improbable are producing Lost Without Words. It’s inspired by the fact that while older actors may have spent a lifetime playing characters in plays, as they move into their 70s and 80s, it sometimes becomes harder to remember the lines. Lost Without Words allows them to go off script and learn new skills in an evening that will be improvised at every performance.

With theatre audiences often containing a significant proportion of retired people, there could be box-office appeal in shows that offer them the chance to see themselves portrayed on stage. But does this current trend represent a move towards greater representation of older people in theatre? It will take far more to bring about lasting change. At a time when theatre is becoming far more aware of its lack of inclusiveness in relation to gender, race and economic and social privilege, ageism is often left out of the diversity conversation. But, as Linden says: “It is undoubtedly a diversity issue. Why squander all that talent and experience when we can use it to offer a different view of older people than the one we so often see?”

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