As any good commercial acting class with teach you, a successful actor must consider human emotion and nature in any and every performance. However, an actor does not need to suffer in order to successfully perform in auditions and land meaningful roles. How can an...
Some stereotypical aspects of a character may be helpful in a performance as it will allow your audience to quickly gain at least a partial understanding of your character. Later on, the character must be given complexity or the audience will become disenchanted and...
When discussing identity and stereotypes, the term that must be discussed is distortion. Regardless of whether the actor is learning commercial acting techniques or methods for other types of acting, distortion is a necessary talent. Every performance, from film to...
Despite the fact that Shia LaBeouf once stated that he was a “lonely dude”, it is doubtful that this feeling is shared by many other actors. This statement implies that his career forces him to make sacrifices. In 2006, he told The Washington Post that a...
A partial use of stereotypes can help the audience to better understand your character, at least on a superficial level that can be fleshed out later on in the performance. Character complexity cannot be ignored, however, or the viewer will rapidly become bored with...