Don't forget the beats hahahahaha

If you do the homework I am suggesting on a piece you will never forget those beats! You will inhabit that character and achieve a compelling performance istead of running thru your agenda of blocking and line readings.

The fact that you make light of this technique shows you know nothing about the true craft of acting and acting history. Go ahead. Argue with me! What will be your rebuttal?

200 method actor academy award winners are not wrong!

Daniel Day-Lewis the greatest British actor uses these methods. Go ahead. Tell me he can't do Hamlet!

I’m going to try this. Anymore tips. We need to have a discussion?

You’re trying to get someone or make them do something. You shouldn’t focus on the emotion or it will make you fake the emotions instead of experiencing them. Emotion comes from the magic if or emotional memory/recall of something relating to the objective/ action or circumstances .

I'm going to try that Logan. Thank you!

John Windsor-Cunningham Just found your videos John. From Newcastle UK. Amazing they are helping a lot.

John Windsor-Cunningham you are AMAZING 🤩Thank you for this video 🙏🏼

John, very kindly thank you for these gold nuggets 🙏

Yes, I agree. Script analysis is #1 most important by far. But taking what you said even a step further, a couple years ago I learned a new technique, and now I don't even try to learn lines until I'm with another actor. I listen to what they say to me, then I look down to what my response is supposed to be, and then I look up and communicate that back to them. Then I listen, and repeat... I don't look at the script and anticipate anything until it's my time to respond. And the simple reason is that it allows an actor to be in a state in which their own line is the INEVITABLE consequence of what the other actor just gave you. It can ONLY be that, because that's the way this technique connects it in your head. There is no extraneous mentaI gyration involved. With this technique, I can have a scene down in one or two read-throughs. But I still won't know what my lines are. If you were to ask me, I wouldn't know. It takes trust, and it requires one to be present--actually more than present. It is being hyper attuned to the other actor. The result is amazing. I wish someone had shown me this a long time ago. You can imagine that it absolutely builds connection and true life between actors. It's also a trip to be able to do an entire scene or script verbatim and not even know what your lines are! You'll probably only be able to recall fragments here and there if you try to remember separate from actually doing it. But when the time comes and you're present and listening, whatever you hear will illicit exactly what you're supposed to say in the script. I've seen a master actor learn an entire play (he played the lead in "Talk Radio") in just two reads! If you don't know that particular play, it's full-length, and he's on stage and talking damn near 100% of the time! It's a huge part to learn. He proved this method to all of us, seeing him do it first-hand. Otherwise I'd have probably scoffed at the idea as impossible. And script analysis is separate from this in that you can completely focus on that and flesh out the character, and it does not affect this methodology of line learning at all.

Thank you 😊

I’ve found cue cards helpful too 😊 There’s a handy rehearsal app called Dialogmaster Pro that I use, and it’s helped a lot because it will play the other characters’ lines to cue my lines. I can listen to my lines or I can silence them in playback to say them myself. It’s has lots of helpful playback options. It’s worth checking out 💯

congratulations .

Sean Johnson howd it go? Which movie was it?

Sean Johnson which movie?

If that’s your biggest fear then you should go for it. It’s actually not difficult if you work at it. Put the work in and the results will be there.

cleverchaleigh i think if you got the just of the script you can probably make it your own once youve got the just of it that is then its all play with your fellow actor from there

Thank you! You make it sound so simple...I wish my brain would!

And? What's with the cynicism?

There is a long time conflict between British acting and American method acting. Evidently you don't know that. Or representational acting (British) and presentational acting. I made the comment because I am a trained professional American actor. The fact is that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. That's because UK training is diction, elocution and fencing. That is the tradition in UK. As far as emotion you just have to act; fake it. His comment reflects that: he doesn't have a method! So he isn't saying anything useful! The US method gives you and actual method to present real emotion on stage. This is an old battle since 1930s. Unfortunately for British style actors method work is de rigeur in films. You can't get away with fakery in films. All the great British actors such as Daniel-Day Lewis use the American method. In 1962 RAD in UK hired an American method teacher from Actors Studio in NY to teach the method. In the past 30 years 200 out of all Academy Awards have been method actors!

Any links to your page so we can hear from your vast experience?

There is no American or British acting for fuck sake! it's ACTING... you guys sounds like there is no acting exist anywhere else 😁😁😀

Typical American trying to prove his superior methods to the world when in fact he's dumb as shit

I have seen John work in London. Just to let you know, he is a fine honest actor.