“There’s so much to nonverbal communication that I have yet to really understand as an actor” – Woody Harrelson
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“If you get the hair and the costume right – you put that costume on long before you start the movie – you look in the mirror and you go, ‘There he is, I know exactly who he is.'” – Michael Caine
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Throughout his life, Brando recorded hundreds of hours of audiotapes that had never been made public until now
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“I find sometimes emotional scenes are not that difficult for me. I find a way of tricking myself to trick myself to make something happen.” – Robert Duvall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2lRdkNGDcY Fifty-nine years ago today (October 27, 1955), Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean was released. An oft-repeated bit of trivia about the film is that Marlon Brando auditioned for Dean’s role in the film. However, that isn’t entirely accurate. Brando, who was seven years Dean’s senior and was
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Both Brando and Adler recoiled from the term “method acting” because it didn’t speak to the research-based acting that Adler taught
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This is the final excerpt of a three-part series from Stella Adler’s first biography, Stella! Mother of Modern Acting
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2lRdkNGDcY&w=420&h=315 Here’s a screen test that Marlon Brando did when he was 23 years old. It’s from Rebel Without a Cause (that’s what it says on the slate) and even then, you could tell how good he was. Check it out!
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Robert Duvall has worked as an actor for over sixty years and has appeared in television and movies for over fifty. While he might be 83 years old, he has absolutely no plans of going anywhere — he still appears in about two to three movies a year. His longevity
