Showing improvement Tonight was my third acting lesson and I was pleasantly surprised at my progress. More specifically, I was pleasantly surprised at my instructor’s evaluation of my progress. We only had time to record and critique the monologue from Good Will Hunting, but he seemed genuinely
Read more →Slowly assimilating Well, work wasn’t too bad today, although I hated bein’ there. I hated it so much I left a couple hours early. I was tired and still sort of in vacation mode, so I figured why not dip out a little early. Anyway, I’ll make
Read more →So money My second acting lesson went very well and we even got a scene (the one from Swingers) on tape. My instructor said I’m doing good work and that he expects I’ll keep improving for some time. I thought my performance was mediocre, but then, I
Read more →Lesson 2 tomorrow Well, it’s been a week since my first lesson and, while I learned a lot during the first lesson, I’ve probably learned a lot more since that first lesson. I’m almost through Acting in Film and I’m surprised how varied and useful all of
Read more →Robin Williams on Inside the Actors Studio I’ve always been fascinated by Robin if for no other reason than his brain seems to work at twice the speed of most humans’. All he needs is an inkling of an idea and he will go off on a
Read more →It has begun Man, today was long. I got up at 7, got to work at 8, knocked off work at 4, went home and ate a quick dinner, left for Ft. Worth about 5:20, started my lesson at 6:50, left my lesson about 9:45 and finally
Read more →Good article in People magazine Yesterday, I picked up the latest issue of People, mostly because there was another cover story about The Passion inside. The article was actually pretty interesting in that it touched on a few of the prevalent religions (and philosophies) in Hollywood. The
Read more →Lessons start Tuesday It’s official: I’ll be taking private lessons starting on Tuesday and continuing every Tuesday, indefinitely (except April 20, when I’ll be in Gainesville). I’m pretty excited about the opportunity for a lot of reasons: I get to push myself to try something totally new,
Read more →A different direction with acting Well, I spoke with my friend and former acting instructor tonight and I’m beginning to have a clearer picture of where I’m going and how I’ll get there. For now, it looks like I’ll be taking private lessons (or being “coached”, to
Read more →A little encouragement I’ve been in touch with my acting instructor from a couple summers ago and he’s been kind enough to give me a little guidance as I begin to seriously consider moving closer to the business. He’s given me a lot of useful information, but
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