Interviews
Q & A: Noah Wyle on ‘Falling Skies’, the Cast and His Newest Co-Star, Booger the Horse
Noah: “I was more exhausted at the end of this season than I had been”
Interview: Brit Marling and Director Zal Batmanglij Talk ‘The East’, Their Writing Process and Acting Notebooks
Brit on acting notebooks: “They can kind of become a crutch”
Interview: Tony Nominee Shalita Grant on ‘Vanya and Sonia’, Her Rehearsal Process and Why She Was Willing to Wait for Her Broadway Debut
We also talk about her Tony Nomination, Juilliard and her advice to actors!
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Nature of the Beast
Chart your course, set your goals and go after it again and again!
Fail Boldly
Make the choices that you are scared of. Experiment. Play. Fail!
Keep the Drama on the Stage: How to Get Along with Your Fellow Actors
Ego and competition! 3 Steps to get along with your actor friends
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Latest News
Have you called the SAG offices?December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We just had to call the main SAG office in LA and guess who answers the phone as their digital operator?
Elliott Gould!
December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Meryl Streep has been on a roll. First she had ‘The Devil Wears Prada‘ and ‘Mammi Mia‘. Now, with her upcoming film, Doubt, she is back on top and already being touted for an Oscar nomination.
Here she talks life, Doubt and oh yeah, acting.
December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
ACTRA, the Canadian union representing more than 21,000 actors will stand behind SAG in the event it calls a strike vote.
That includes directing members not to work for any “struck” U.S. production that attempts to come north of the border to evade the SAG‘s jurisdiction.
While U.S. producers who are not signatories to the ACTRA agreement would be frozen out, it would be difficult to prevent ACTRA members from working for Canadian companies that land contracts for U.S. productions.
December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Over the past several weeks I have been ridiculed for continuing to present to actors positive thoughts and “false hope” about working in the entertainment business given the state of affairs of SAG and the economy. It has been said by a couple of naysayers that as a teacher it is my responsibility to make sure actors know the realities of the business and that they should get a “decent job” and not have hope to build their dream of becoming a successful actor.
In my honest opinion, artists have to live in their own reality in order to create. If your creative funnel is mucked up with ugly negative junk, then how can you channel the writer or even experience a full thought and feeling? Trust me, your representatives are there to buffer you from the realities of the business. That has never been your job.
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An Open Letter To The Entertainment Industry
Our industry has worked hard this year to make six major labor agreements. These six agreements were intensely fought and aggressively negotiated by all sides, with major compromises made by everyone involved. Now, with all the other Guilds and Unions having accomplished so much, SAG is demanding that the entire industry literally throw out all of its hard work because it believes it deserves more than the 230,000 other working people in the industry. Continue »
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| Eileen Barnett booked a guest star on ER | Andrea Conte booked a Lead in the film, Package Deal | Rick Scarry booked a starring rol in the Hallmark TV movie, Flower Girl |
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Simon Baker is undaunted by having to depict a hyper-aware character whose thinking process unfolds before the audience in his new series, ‘The Mentalist‘.
“I’ve had a bit more problem with the showmanship side of it, because I haven’t really played roles like that,” he said.
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There is a new play in Japan that has opened to rave reviews.
It’s about two depressed servants who work for a couple. The servants hate their lives and try to break free of their boring lives.
And guess what… the two servants are robots.
“It was very surprising,” said one guest. “You could see the robots thinking about how to respond – you could swear they were feeling emotion.”
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It may say something about the state of American television that there is one more black president-elect of the United States than there are black actors with individual lead roles in a network television drama.
But after years of ensemble dramas sprinkled with nonwhite supporting actors, the excitement surrounding the election of Barack Obama could help to open doors for more minorities in leading dramatic roles, executives from television production studios said.
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“Pilots are vastly overrated,” CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves said last spring.
CEO Jeff Zucker in January, “The odds of success are just as great going straight to series as they are in making all of those pilots.”
Really? Then why are most of the series that came on without a pilot tanking? Look at what’s happened to “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Crusoe” – CANCELLED… and “Kath & Kim” is being reworked. You also have FOX’s “Dollhouse” which has gone through tons of reshoots.
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