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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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Patrick Stewart On Acting

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Since Star Trek, Stewart has been fortunate enough to play a massive variety of roles, from Charles Xavier, to playing opposite his close friend Ian McKellen in Waiting For Godot. Right now, he is about to lend his voice to the poop emoji for the upcoming Emoji movie. Certainly no one can accuse Stewart of always playing the same role. Talking to The Independent, Stewart says he always seeks to play someone different, and strives for diversity in his work.

“Diversity and contrast have been important to me from the very start. When I graduated from drama school in Bristol, I didn’t have a job, an agent or anything. It seemed to be everyone else did except me, but after a month of signing on at the Labour Exchange in Dewsbury, I suddenly got an offer out of nowhere. I was introduced to variety from the beginning, so it’s stayed with me. I’ve never been interested in finding a Patrick Stewart persona and simply regurgitating it – and anyway, who’d be interested in Patrick Stewart? Very few people. It’s always for me been about performance and trying to produce the unexpected.”

“I feel incredibly fortunate because aspects of my career, not only did I never anticipate any of it, they weren’t looked for. I was a stage actor and the fact that somebody would employ me to work on the stage was enough for me. I did a bit of TV, but movies, Hollywood, it was la la land and a lot of it was accident – being at UCLA illustrating a friend’s academic lecture on Shakespeare; a producer of Star Trek signed up to the course of lectures. I say to my son who is also an actor, it’s a lottery, it really is. Always do the best work you can do, but don’t expect that it will lead to the next thing.”

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3 Steps To Transform Your Acting Career With A Simple Mindset Tweak

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1. Start focusing on the solution

Visualize your dream acting career. What does it look like? Sound like? Feel like. Be specific.

2. When you slip, make a conscious course correction

When you find yourself swirling around in a pool of negativity, stop & change your mindset.

3. Be open to receiving help

To transform your acting career, practice living in the solution instead of in the problem.

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Zach Galifianakis on ‘Baskets’

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Taking the central role, Galifianakis plays a clown school dropout, who has moved back home, and now spends his time trying to one up his twin brother as they vie for their mother’s attention. While essentially a comedy, Baskets is at times quite dramatic and bleak. In fact, like all good comedy, it borders so close on being a tragedy that sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between the two, Galifiankis acknowledges that it’s not to everyone’s tastes, but for him as an actor, he wanted to move into more dramatic roles.

“The Hangover movies were — it was a really wonderful time. But that’s a character. That Alan guy was a big, big, loud, dumb character. Dumb I can do. Not to sound too pretentious or actor-y, but you want to kind of challenge yourself. As a comic — as a fat, bearded comic — you can paint yourself into a corner. And this town wants to do that because it’s a copycat business. The entertainment business is very copycat. And you can do that for a few years, rely on that, but then, you know, if you want a longer career you try to change things up as much as you’re allowed to.”

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Michael Shannon on ‘Nocturnal Animals’

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About his “hard to surprise” character, Shannon says, “He’s seen so much over the years. He’s dealt with a lot of gruesome crimes. In order to cope with that kind of darkness, you develop a lot of calluses, I think, psychically.” Shannon continues, “Put it this way, he can’t really be punished any more than his body is doing. What are you going to do to him, put him in prison? He doesn’t care. He doesn’t have a lot of time anyway.”

While Shannon has a history of playing stoic, emotionally damaged characters, he says that he connected with his character because of Ford’s writing. He explains, “From Day 1, I felt pretty locked into [the character]. It’s pretty mysterious. I can’t really say why or how. Maybe it’s because the writing’s so good. When you’ve got really great writing, it makes it easy. This was such a great read and it was so vivid from the get-go, I just seemed to find it pretty easily.”

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