When you just start as an actor, wrestling with reservations about taking a certain role, especially when it could pay some bills or even your rentposes a challenge.
Again, actors who go the distance tend to work on intention instead of throwing themselves on everything and everything. In the latest section of “What no one tells you” William Stanford Davis (Aka Johnson at the “atAbbott elementary“) Told indiege’s future to filmmaking that while” people are afraid to say no “, that a word is the key to separating yourself.
“They think it won’t say you won’t get a job,” said Davis, “or that any kind of bad magic formula will be placed on you because you said the word” no “. The word” no “is one of the most important things you can say in this business.”
Davis quoted a test he gave when he taught actress classes in Los Angeles, where he asked the students if they were willing to do nudity. Many, as he said, answered immediately, “Oh, yes, safe”, but to Davis, this meant: “They didn’t think about the question.” If they are willing to do nudity it is perfectly good, but not even try to understand why your character can remove indicates that they would “do something for a job.” Instead of just saying yes to everything, actors should consider why they are best appropriate for a role and use it to guide their choice instead.
In addition to giving advice on what to say “no” to, Davis also emphasized why actors “would always learn.” By keeping their senses open, actors can use new ways of behaving to raise their presence.
“For me, there were just a few small things, like every experience we have filtered through your five senses,” Davis told Future of Filmmaking. “It was like,” oh my good “, it was like an” aha! “Moment for me.
He added, “feelings for emotions are a lie. Emotions must be based on the truth, and if I tell the truth all the time – if I am really locked up – the truth about what this character goes through, the emotions will be there to save me. It requires a huge amount of studies to make it perfect and I do not think that no one is constantly growing.
See a clip from his section of “What no one tells you” below.
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