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Tom Hardy on How He Prepared for His Role in ‘Taboo’

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“I really think about acting in two different parts. There’s convincing and not convincing acting. Convincing acting is about hustle and the flow of narrative of what do I want and what am I going to do in order to get it, and the energy transition between two actors or more. And then there’s camouflage, the creation of silhouette and disguise, whether you use putty nose or whether you’re slightly subtler.”

And what did he do to prepare for playing Delaney? Nothing. I’d spent nine years talking about him. I did maybe 5 percent acting on the show, most of it was running around, working with heads of department, marketing. I didn’t have time to do any acting. The hat helps and the scars.”

So there you have it; to play a convincing character, all you need is a hat and some scars!

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3 Steps to Cracking the Casting Director Code

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Step 1. Let go of what you can’t control.

And the most challenging part to accept? Most of them are completely out of your control.

Check this out…

Here are the most common…

  1. You’re too tall
  2. You’re too short
  3. You’re too pretty
  4. You’re not pretty enough
  5. You’re too handsome
  6. You’re not handsome enough
  7. You’re too fat (…)

Step 2. Focus on doing your best work.

If your audition is good – if it’s highly competitive, complex and specific and you NAIL IT from beginning to end – they will remember you.

Step 3. Don’t kick yourself if you don’t get the part.

You know what often goes hand-in-hand with rejection?

  • Self-judgment.
  • Anger.
  • Despair.
  • Negative self-talk.

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5 Tips For Mind Blowing Confidence for Actors

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1. Who Are You Surrounding Yourself With?
If you are feeling low on confidence and self-esteem, you need to be brutally honest with yourself about who you are surrounding yourself with and what effect they are having on you.

Ask yourself the following questions:

  • Who are the main 5 people who surround me?
  • How do I feel when I’m around them? (Do this for each person individually)
  • What do they say/do that impacts me in a positive way?
  • What do they say/do that impacts me in a negative way?

2. Keep Learning and Developing You Skills.
To be confident in your abilities as an actor, there’s no doubt that you need to be consistently working on improving and developing your skills.

3. There Is No Such Thing As Too Much Preparation.
If you have a role or an audition coming up, prepare the hell out of it.

4. Look after your body.
Exercise, eat clean and pay attention to what your body needs. This will drastically improve your confidence!

5. Dedicate Time To The Things That Make You Feel Alive!
If you are a creative person, which you clearly are or you wouldn’t be here, you need to be creating.

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Viggo Mortensen on How He Became an Actor

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Viggo Mortensen

It didn’t occur to me to try acting it until I was, for an actor, relatively pretty old — 22 or 23. I was working selling tickets and popcorn in a revival movie theater and I was seeing movies from the ’30s to the ’80s and taking note of certain performances. I started to wonder, What was their trick?How do they affect me so strongly, transport me to places far from the movie house? I wanted to try it.

The first teacher I had was a man named Warren Robertson in New York City. He ran scene-study and exercise classes. I didn’t really know anything; I hadn’t had any kind of acting training so I didn’t even know what I was doing. I actually looked in the yellow pages and thought I would try out for a play. I found a listing that said Actors Repertory Theater — yeah, okay they must do lots of plays with actors! So I called them and I said “I want to try out. What’s the story you’re doing, should I prepare?”  They said, “Just come in Monday at 8 o’clock and bring two pieces.” I go, “Two pieces of what?” It’s a miracle they even let me come in. I cobbled together dialogue of a character from a story by Karen Blixen, the Danish writer Meryl Streep played in Out of Africa. And also, for some reason I prepared the lyrics to an Irish song. I performed those two texts and they said, “We will get back to you.” Then, a couple of days later they called and said, “Okay, you are accepted.” It turned out to be an audition for an acting school, not a play. So that’s how I got started.

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Felicity Jones on How She Finds Inspiration For Her Characters

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For all her characters, Jones creates scrapbooks. “Pictures that I see that remind me of the person I’m playing, little bits of writing,” she describes of its contents. “As much as possible, I’m trying to understand who the characters are and why they’re making the decisions that they’re making.”

For Jyn, she also did something a little different, knowing that, coming from another galaxy, Jyn is a different character to most. As THR describes, “Before the six-month shoot outside London began in August 2015, she spent hours watching music videos, particularly those of Florence + the Machine.” “It became a very important part of finding her. She walks almost a bit like a caged animal. Her fight sequences become like dances,” Jones says.

12 Ways to Kick Ass at Improvisation

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  1. Establish the Location and Who You Are Early On without Spoon Feeding the Audience (being too obvious).
  2. Don’t Block Your Co-Actors.
  3. Be Adaptable.
  4. Don’t Ask Too Many Questions Or Give Too Many One Word Answers.
  5. Tell a Story.
  6. Be Specific.
  7. The Way To Make Yourself Look Good Is To Make Your Co-Actors Look Good.
  8. Cut To The Chase.
  9. Justify Each Word and Action.
  10. You Don’t Have To Be Funny.
  11. Go Line For Line.
  12. Listen Carefully, and with all your senses.

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Scarlett Johansson on Choosing Roles

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Johansson notes what appealed to her about becoming Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying, “I’ve always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older that’s meant different things. I’ve never been a superhero-comic fan exactly. I did Iron Man 2 because I loved what [the director Jon] Favreau did with Iron Man. It spoke to me as someone who was not a fan of that genre, and I saw a future in building a character with Marvel. The idea of doing a franchise was exciting — being able to play a character over many installments, the challenge of playing a character who had a built-in fan base, and trying to put my stamp on that character.”

She adds that most of the reasons why she chooses the roles that she does is because of the opportunities to do something new. She explains, “I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience… I’ve always been very competitive, and a part of that is pushing your boundaries — taking a risk, and being able to live with the loss that comes with taking a risk.”

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