What Does Cillian Murphy Believe is an Actor’s Most Essential Tool?
Murphy points out that it is important for him to feel empathy for his characters, even if he doesn’t agree with their actions.
Murphy points out that it is important for him to feel empathy for his characters, even if he doesn’t agree with their actions.
Preston recalls her first appearance on ‘The Good Wife’, remembering that she “was there as a guest to serve the bigger story, so I didn’t know how far I was being encouraged to go.”
Ruffalo points out that acting in from of a green screen has close parallels to theater training.
“I didn’t go to graduate school for acting. I learned everything by being in rooms and watching rehearsals I wasn’t even called for because I was learning,” Domingo said.
“When kids go, ‘OK, you be this and I’ll be this.’ That ability doesn’t leave us. What does leave us is a lack of self-consciousness. Our job is to hold on to that,” Scott said.
Quan admits that he found the technical jargon challenging, and turned to co-star Hiddleston for advice.
Keoghan says he didn’t judge his ‘Saltburn’ character. “All the choices I made as Oliver, I didn’t seem them as sociopathic or wrong.”
Wright enrolled at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts but left after two months. “I learned it the old apprentice way, just working on the stage,” he said.
“What I do try to do is stay close to a feeling that I think is appropriate,” White says.
Cooper points out that because he is playing Bernstein at three different ages, he had to approach his portrayal in three different ways.
Butler confesses that he always feels nervous about taking on new projects and how he will perform the particular character.
“Method acting is a sort of … No,” the Oppenheimer star said.
“Sometimes there’s a mistaken belief that I can just show up and roll into it,” she says.
Sessa, who had just finished performing in his school’s production of “Rumors” by Neil Simon, was scouted by casting directors searching for locations and potential background actors.
McKellen also opens up about his approach to acting, including noting the worst experience he ever had making a film.
Chastain notes that the residuals she received from her early projects helped sustain her before her career took off. “I don’t know what I’d have done without that residual money.”
“I had gone to a prep school,” Giamatti said. “I grew up around a lot of people like this. So, it was kind of like, ‘Ooh, this’ll be fun.’ I can just pull on this deep well of all these memories.”
Actor Jeff Bridges talks about his approach to acting and why he finds “jamming” with other actors to be his ideal way to work on a project.
As an actor, Moss-Bachrach tries to focus on maintaining relaxation, saying that he tries to “relax and negotiate this tightrope walk of nerves. You need to be relaxed to be able to make art and surprise yourself.”
Maridueña was concerned that most of the film would be shot with green screen, but he was pleased to find out that the green screen shots were limited.