Hi Alberto, thank you for your comment.

That’s the most fascinating thing about acting… you’ve rehearsed and therefore know how the character needs to be and when…then in performance you have to make it spontaneous because that is how we live. In other words and as you quite rightly allude to, an actor has to make the known and predictable, unknown and unpredictable and to do that, while remaining in the context of the story and the character’s thinking, takes a good deal of dedicated work, knowledge, design and skill. It doesn’t just happen by chance and it isn’t the result of a mystical, god-given talent.

Philip

Thank you dre for your comment and taking the time to do so. There are a lot of people think the way you do during and after the drama school experience and even on into the profession.

Professionalism is a good thing but only when it goes hand in hand with knowledge of your profession and the development of professional skill. In acting, buzzwords like; professionalism, believability, star-quality and charisma, sometimes paper-over a profound lack of understanding of what acting actually is and should be. If you start digging and asking questions colleagues can treat you like some kind of philistine who seems to have missed the mystic, multi-interpretable nuances (in other words confusion) that the acting profession desperately embraces.

Keep checking in here, my videos and upcoming podcasts and I’ll do my best to give you answers.

Philip

But this explained the feeling I had as well when I spilled water on my head in a comedy and did not break. Instead leaned in and have been trying to figure out how to be in relationship with that as society tells us to be “professional “ and learn from the “greats” deemed greats based on societies needs and standards of beauty.

I desire to be in the pocket a balance between the audience at large I think is important but what I have not learned and resonate with is how to be in relationship with self in order to have the precise focus you just spoke of.

Thank you for sharing and please continue to do so.