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the
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me the truth about film acting
and it's different than acting in on stage a is that you want to be prepared
I wanna be prepared enough and know what the shots are no
you know kinda know what's going on for me to do to to then why do the scene I
want something to happen to me on camera
so I don't I don't want it like do it again and again and again when a
definite
because I wanna keep like you know just I don't
I always want to know exactly what I'm doing I wanna be taken by surprise by
another actor's performance or by
you know why my reaction to something staff the trip if you can have you can
have
an emotional reaction on camera
I mean that's what you're trying to do not not not construct something so fully
when you can we doing a play you have to recreate emotional miss you have to
figure out a way to do it night after night after night get to that spot
but independent film its you can actually allow yourself to have the
experience on camera which is really cool
I was a big reader when I was a kid to be moved around a lot
and I was always like the first person at the library checking out as many
books as I could take you know
and and I loved it and then when I started you know
started doing acting in school it seems like what I was reading aloud
that's just I you just feel like you're in the story so yeah it was
it was that I progression think I don't think I'm naturally
a former I don't actually like to you know some people kind of wonderful
onstage didn't
and can can really you know perform
you know sing and dance and and do comedy into always kinda in that car and
for me it's
its ike I can't do it unless I in a story how much of that do you think your
personal history of moving around a lot as a kid kinda impacted your interest in
and I am finding these kind casters
0 tremendously I mean so many actors become
I mean there's so many people from you know military backgrounds
embassy backgrounds are traveling salesman or up ministry
is so many people who travel to have that kinda tight inner child
it's become actors so clearly it's it's a
a a causal kinda saying you know um
I think what happens is that you you learn that
I think a lot of people think that behavior is character I think because
so-and-so behaves this way
their fate are axe and the one thing that you learn when you move around a
lot
is that no behaviors just behavior and Cara and there and there's things about
about people and about character the can be a
universal 0 is trying to figure that out like me the way he will speak the way
they move the way they
see some stuff is cultural I some
you know some stuff is is yet is it is emotional whatever but it's not that bad
behavior
that you think is characteristic of someone is not as
is always you can always change that to the learning accent stokes
everywhere you have to well because everyone speaks a little bit differently
everywhere you
let live so you have to make sure that you don't stick out
by speaking like the place you just left and
you know something about access is fascinating to me is that you know you
don't lose an accent you actually acquire a new one
henry kissinger ted koppel evidently both left early at the same age
18 I
cell saw obviously ted koppel made a choice
at some points I got the sound like I think I
go you know what i mean it's really
it's really fascinating to me because you have to listen very hard you have to
change the way you speak to
so-called lose an accent yet losing it you're firing something else
are there any characters then though that have stayed with you
over the years some they all do and they all don't
you know it's like they you can kinda see so it's like
is like they're like people that you knew kinda so you remember them
and you remember their qualities but they're but they
don't a
but it's not like you know it's not like civil where you can reach in and
you know I somebody out I'm they're kinda feel like wow that character
oh yeah you remember I mean refunds ice make this show to that
sometimes you're acting so hard that you really believe that you change your
physiognomy
so the disappointment is when you actually see the movie like of
if still maimed yeah it's really
and that's really how do you do in in your head you think I've done it I've
done it this time I just completely different face
I so that's I think that's a bit the most isn't that the biggest
disappointment
actually that you don't actually transform and he started out in
in soap spray yeah yeah do you do you have any tricks that you learned in
soaps
no I don't have a specific thing well I'll come back to you know it's
interesting
about you force I'm I force myself to watch myself because I've been
I come right out a college have an article to your job on on the soap opera
and I was terrified and I didn't know anything about camera acting
I didn't and so I've watched I remember one this one girl said to me
you you have to make sure you're focusing on one of my eyes because
if you'll notice Michael Caine does is it is video on acting a
if you look if you watch if you look at a person you look at both their eyes
on-camera your eyes will flicker back and forth back and forth back forth back
and forth
and you don't see that to you look at unity actually the screen is what the
attack said to me know you have to focus on
you know one thing you can change your focus but so that kinda stuff and I
would have to be less tension my face and
I learned to move the tension off-camera
you know I was like it was gonna have it wasn't the place for could be relaxed
which is at least have it off camera to have my fists in a knot or something
you know anything just a but I kept I
it just it has let me learn how to work with the cam
that was that was really what it did you work every single day
from 7 wearing a seven-night new you really have to memorize myself and you
fail
and and so you learn from your sexy seems to work well
that was terrible okay let me let me try this yeah it in developed his from
melodrama
I gotta love rather I
my favorite line from as the World Turns was
about about my boyfriend I came downstairs I said to my mother
now that I know that kevin is out of jail I think I'll take a nap
but
yeah I know
I what's not to love but
I did it did you by the time you get gas itself because you're young to do you
think well this is it
I made it know I am I didn't now I was just like
I have a job I have a job I have a job thank you have a job and its I was
always that way
you know I always thought I still like still feel like okay we're going to do
next
I'm I'll think you can ever feel like you used arrived anywhere because we're
you know for freelancers you know so you never really know it's not a sure thing
so I don't think I've ever felt that way from
them