Description
The approach presented on this book, honed after years of on-set experience and from teaching at UCLA, NYU, and Columbia, and endorsed by many in the industry, including director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and producer/actor Edward Asner, aims to offer a helpful reference and resource for directors and actors alike. It combines underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor’s craft. There’s material on constructing the throughline, analyzing the script, character needs; the casting and rehearsal processes, film vs. theater procedures in addition to the actor and the camera.
Distilling difficult concepts and a complex task to their simplest form, the creator explains easy methods to as it should be capture and portray human behavior. The creator’s discussion of creative problems she has encountered or anticipated after years of experience, and her suggested solutions and exercises, are in an instant useful. Additionally, hear what the actors have to say in excerpts from interviews with acclaimed actors such as Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, Robert Redford, Christopher Walken, Julianne Moore, and Michael Douglas (to name a couple of) who discuss their work with directors, what inspires them, and what they actually want from the director.