What Makes A Great Actor? by Ted Kotcheff

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WAKE IN FRIGHT opens on October 19, 2012, at Landmark's Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement. Filmmaker Ted Kotcheff will appear in person on Friday, October 19, and Saturday, October 20, at the 8:15pm shows each night. The film also is opening in select U.S. engagements throughout Fall 2012.
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@cyren_ 7 жыл бұрын

I'm just going to put this out there and say: Good luck to everyone on this video that wants to become an actor. Don't ever stop because someone didn't believe in you. Keep striving to achieve your goal, and you will.

@loveu2956 5 жыл бұрын

PaperBagBoy that's really sweet thank you!

@loveu2956 5 жыл бұрын

Jan Norris you don't need to give up... Real actors don't wanna be actors for fame or money... It's a job like every other job...

@danielabundez3301 5 жыл бұрын

Well not all of you

@ameliagacha8236 5 жыл бұрын

thank youu💜

@kcklutch 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@nekishamichelle 10 жыл бұрын

Don't deliver lines be the character! Amazing acting advice. I have an audition Monday I'm preparing for. This journey is challenging yet deeply mystical, enjoyable and creates bliss.

@licheng7956 10 жыл бұрын

How did it go? :)

@nekishamichelle 10 жыл бұрын

Li Cheng thank you for asking I did book 1 leading role since watching this. I have to nail my auditions better. Its a journey but I'm growing.

@licheng7956 10 жыл бұрын

Just keep trying ;) And when you got nothing to do just keep practising. Better to be prepared and not having an oppertunity. Than having an oppertunity and not being prepared. - Less Brown

@nekishamichelle 10 жыл бұрын

Li Cheng thank you I will for sure....here's my site www.nolovedrama.com stay in touch.

@vonmoose1 9 жыл бұрын

How did it go? What are you doing now?

@AurumGolds 7 жыл бұрын

I think people with depression would be amazing actors because many can fool everyone they know

@AllThingsFilm1 6 жыл бұрын

Good point. I think a lot of good actors are depressives. Meaning they are filled with uncertainty, which causes the depression, but with that they are willing to explore emotional states that "happier" people aren't willing or able to do.

@BP-ez7nu 6 жыл бұрын

It's so funny I came across this comment. I suffer from depression, anxiety and personality disorders. I am also an aspiring actor, with so much raw emotion and I have experienced alot. It will help

@anthonyaguilar1888 6 жыл бұрын

I had depression too it’s funny how I wanted to be an actor too as well

@pugsyconglomerate 5 жыл бұрын

Not really, for me it's something that keeps from stepping into a character and it's something you have to overcome in order to truly make a great performance.

@MsHabzz 5 жыл бұрын

Its sad really 😢😭😓😟😣🙂

@Wandia_glowriah 5 жыл бұрын

Someday ill be a successful actress🙏

@babyface5035 5 жыл бұрын

Charlton Heston said actors need to have loads of ENERGY and great HEALTH . Talent only takes you so far ......

@noodlez5073 Жыл бұрын

The phrase “Emotional temperature” is one that will really stick with me. This interview is brilliant.

@MrBrokentowels 4 жыл бұрын

I love actors that can tell the story. Sometimes actors can make a meal out of a scene but I forget what the movie was about. If someone concerns themselves with only their character and not the story regardless if the performance is great, the movie won’t be great. I think truly great actors can do both, tell the story and focus on there character

@poolboyinla 9 жыл бұрын

I would have liked to have seen him talk about Stallone and First Blood. Sly deserved an oscar nom for that.

@filmcourage 9 жыл бұрын

Travis Kraft Thanks for visiting Travis, here is Ted talking a little about First Blood and Stallone kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNmdfKyit5mohWg.html

@poolboyinla 9 жыл бұрын

Film Courage Thanks. I also like the film he did with Lundgren.

@mech-productions8958 8 жыл бұрын

+Travis Kraft lol rocky IV?

@poolboyinla 8 жыл бұрын

+Mech-Productions No, I meant the film Ted Kotcheff directed with Dolph Lundgren.

@user-yb8vr2ip2t Жыл бұрын

You're funny. Watch Brando in Streetcar. Learn a little.

@kwixotic 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, even in one of his lesser known films("Class Action") Gene Hackman shines brilliantly. The one thing I like about him and you see it also in "the Unforgiven", is this kind of mischievous grin of somone who delights in playing whatever role he does. It wasn't so present early on as in "The French Connection" but moreso later on.

@katk3489 6 жыл бұрын

kwixotic this is so accurate

@JulietteVeronica1201 7 жыл бұрын

Acting has been one of the few things that I have ever been truly passionate about and strive to get better everyday. I'm trying to get as much experience as I can through drama club and acting classes during the summer.

@TuanRyuJin 3 жыл бұрын

Don't act, be the character! Thanks for this great Interview. Ted so experienced director!

@brandonclark4882 5 жыл бұрын

Truthfully, I believe a great actor is made on the side of his light. When he isn't being seen is how he will be made good in front of others. An actor who trains consistently and prominently to ever enhance his craft is going to go far in a world of those who go home to work the next day. As opposed to doing their homework that night. Take care

@specializedtm2830 4 жыл бұрын

I’m an aspiring actor, I’ve got a few auditions lined up, hopefully I’ve got a chance

@cutebutpsyho3339 4 жыл бұрын

All the best

@nathankirk2554 4 жыл бұрын

No such thing as an aspiring actor. You are one. Everyone is.

@ziopixel2040 4 жыл бұрын

How did it go?

@bh5606 3 жыл бұрын

..good luck..

@nithindominickoshy 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up on Sylvester Stallone's action movies. My parents were watching 'First Blood'. I was just a kid back then, but I found Stallone's performance compelling and spellbinding. Kudos!

@user-yb8vr2ip2t Жыл бұрын

Watch Gary Oldman and Daniel Day Lewis instead. That's acting.

@9cross Жыл бұрын

@@user-yb8vr2ip2t Don't discount people like Stallone or even Sandler.

@shaneog6298 6 жыл бұрын

So basically you have to incorporate how you would react in certain situations but change it up a bit to fit your character so you can become that character

@greatday124 10 жыл бұрын

Great Insight. He seems to be an educator as well as a director. I like how he directs according to the actor's needs.

@GjpgrD 2 жыл бұрын

This guy directed Richard Dreyfuss in a Canadian indie called The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz (between American Graffiti & Jaws). Still one of his best performances!

@obilight1988 10 жыл бұрын

i pray i be able to practice this advice

@kwixotic 9 жыл бұрын

The rehearsal policy is very advisable AND can even incorporate improvisation to explore the character and what kind of discoveries are to be unearthed.

@MrGlobalservices 10 жыл бұрын

A lot of people need to watch this video

@jackson1693 9 жыл бұрын

thanks Ted

@fwstrongiv 2 жыл бұрын

That direction style is an actors dream.

@bellatucc2530 10 жыл бұрын

svu is my favorite show! Represent lol

@CasSpell 7 жыл бұрын

I have a dream! I want to become a good actor. I've been onstage before on a community school and tried myself out there as a vocalist and actor, that went pretty well :)

@Bloom100000000000 4 жыл бұрын

04:02-04:08 as someone who wants to go into acting that laughter and his words scared me more then they should have

@ComicPower 2 жыл бұрын

Those method actors that first got famous in the 70s are the best. Pacino, Deniro, Hackman, Nicholson.

@antonymartinez2499 7 жыл бұрын

be the character, don't act the character

@theprojectionist1 10 жыл бұрын

Yes, great advice. Would like to know if i put it to good use in my film In the Dark - some of the best acting on KZfaq

@bh5606 3 жыл бұрын

If I was an actor, I would hate to be given direction such as...be jealous...be hurt...be angry, etc. To have a director explain the scene to me and tell me how to be would be very confusing.

@randallpaul6559 9 жыл бұрын

Such an important statement For me acting is your job title and it is not what you do. When I see an actor acting it kills it for everyone. Acting is the ability to believe in what ever the circumstance is. So many young people have a strange idea because of destructive coaching the old cliche "Being there is so true" How do you get there? A large topic. .

@BruteROBLOX 9 жыл бұрын

I got picked for a acting jobbed :D

@filmcourage 9 жыл бұрын

Merely ROBLOX What's the job?

@BruteROBLOX 9 жыл бұрын

Film Courage I will be a lead in the movie Rumpelstiltskin aka i will Rumpelstiltskin

@filmcourage 9 жыл бұрын

Merely ROBLOX Hard to get bigger than that, congrats!

@BruteROBLOX 9 жыл бұрын

Film Courage Thanks :D

@ArshwayTV 9 жыл бұрын

What job?

@FeverFromDaBronx 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff here

@atsangel777xd9 8 жыл бұрын

this really has inspired me im so devoted to becoming a actor and I'm good as hell at it

@filmcourage 8 жыл бұрын

+angel226 flurry Keep at it!

@atsangel777xd9 8 жыл бұрын

+Film Courage thank you so much

@jaelenbryant5665 8 жыл бұрын

May I ask how old are you?

@atsangel777xd9 8 жыл бұрын

+Jaelen Bryant ya sure I'm 12

@atsangel777xd9 8 жыл бұрын

why do you ask

@Quinsight 10 жыл бұрын

wow

@beatrixvillarojo2287 2 жыл бұрын

If you are in the level with the "lone tag of Norm". . . BRANDO!

@Mimi-el1gx 3 жыл бұрын

God bless everybody

@acextensionsinc Жыл бұрын

🙏🏾✨🙏🏼

@cleverchaleigh 5 жыл бұрын

I have to be honest, I get so frightened when anyone says...."become the person" or anything having to do with method acting. It psychologically unnerving!

@robertoortiz4580 10 жыл бұрын

He talking about me? He must be talking about me , I see no one else but me. Take 1

@KuyaManzano 7 жыл бұрын

My favorite actors are Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro, Christian Bale. And yours?

@gerard1657 8 жыл бұрын

Mmm....well, he's talking about 'great' acting, but mentions 'good' actors. To clarify, I like Hackman as an actor, and think he's good. One lesser notch Notle,wouldn't consider Woods in either category. To me, the most important is what this guy is talking about, being in the moment, truthful, listening,etc. That's what Hackman does. But with the actors he named, they are always themselves. To me, great actors are the ones that can be themselves, as well as play characters completely different from them where you hardly recognize them, as well as actors that can play styles i.e. contemporary drama, comedy, period pieces,etc. Such as Dustin Hoffman, Streep, Day- Lewis

@marlonmoncrieffe0728 6 жыл бұрын

gerard1657 Nick Nolte and James Woods ARE great actors and even chameleonic actors like Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis can screw up and are subject to hamminess.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 5 жыл бұрын

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728, thank you for this... I think it's pertinent to note here, that some great actors (Nolte and Woods, among others) get an unfortunate deal with "type casting", not because they can't do other styles or role-types, but because the other styles, characters, roles, simply aren't selling OR aren't selling for the numbers they need to keep the career path. What happens is that WAY TOO much of the "general public" only seems to know the particular roles that were "iconic" for those actors, and this feeds back to the type-casting cycle. Comments like this, are yet another example of how people too easily confuse the Actor with the Character(s) they've seen... Honestly, I doubt Tony Shaloub (for instance) is really as germophobic or quite as intellectually incredible as Adrian Monk, either... Nor do I think you could blow his head off and watch him just grow a new one... (MIB ref'... lolz) Great Acting (regardless of who does it) is becoming the character in front of the camera, convincingly enough that I recognize the character name before I remember the actor's name... ;o)

@habiibqawiy7884 2 жыл бұрын

Gene Hackman is a GREAT actor imo. Actors like him tend to be more raw and natural. I like actors like John Wayne, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart. They all represent something that is unique to them. Glad for actors like Eastwood too!

@williampalmer9828 6 жыл бұрын

👍

@pianomandove 8 жыл бұрын

Halfway through. He's not saying anything about how to act, only cool stories he had.

@petefisher4429 7 жыл бұрын

You missed. You got some things to learn.

@oldmanmtb1443 7 жыл бұрын

Dov He said you don't act you must be that character. . . . .

@davidprost9144 3 жыл бұрын

Him : one of the most difficult thing to do is to play an introvert Me : Well, I may be a genious, i dont even have to try !

@cyborgsi 2 жыл бұрын

Try spelling ‘Genius’ correctly - then you might have a chance ;)

@paul8411000 7 жыл бұрын

Gary Bond -great actor

@alyssa5927 5 жыл бұрын

I want to become a better actor Bc my theatre teacher never gives me a chance in any play we do all my other friends who have 0 experience get huge parts while I get 5 lines 😐

@emretrpan5990 Жыл бұрын

How's your dream going

@tusharkumar8750 6 ай бұрын

Like Brando or Day lewis or Oldman.

@itsajonathing9184 8 жыл бұрын

How can i work with you on my career

@yojoeo9067 8 жыл бұрын

Casting companies (ones that aren't scams) and getting a agent.

@itsajonathing9184 8 жыл бұрын

+yojoe O do you know of any

@okayvictoriaa7578 8 жыл бұрын

+Jonathan Milner I know one scam place is John Casablanca. I went there for my acting agency and all they wanted was money so know I have decided my mom would be a better one that anyone else so she always doing research for me and finding new commercials and short films for me.

@Toqeerjavaid 7 жыл бұрын

i bet you all that here i am best one no one can beat me in acting ;)

@haleberry5939 5 жыл бұрын

Seeing acting on a set is a killer. We want real, deep, and profound. Just BE -don't act!

@richyr5876 2 жыл бұрын

Also not being an asshole on set that helps a lot as well.

@priscillaprange525 7 жыл бұрын

I wanted to be an actor and people said I would be a good actor. But I never tried it.

@thatperformer3879 7 жыл бұрын

priscilla prange and there's your fault, the most successful actors where told by everyone that they were terrible. That they'd have no chance of ever surviving the industry. And yet they chose not to listen

@halomerric8611 4 жыл бұрын

It's never too late...do it❤⚘

@sarahsodone5993 6 жыл бұрын

$200 a minute wow

@nessarodriguez4865 10 жыл бұрын

get to the point....

@doreinpaulemmanuel3614 4 жыл бұрын

love you ness

@ruzickaw 7 жыл бұрын

He cannot answer the question, What makes a great actor? In a clear , precise way. Too many useless personal anectodes.BEING the carácter , that is the ultimate goal? Yes, in cinema . There you just play yourself.But in repertory theater, where you have to play many diferent carácter? You cannot BE all the characters. Marlon Brando for example was always playing himself. Is this great acting?

@genericasian309 6 жыл бұрын

ruzickaw yes you can, thats the point. a great actor is a person who can be any character. not just delivering the dialogue, but giving life to their own version of the characters, be the character.

@AllThingsFilm1 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you can say that Brando was playing himself. To some extent, actors bring a part of themselves into the character they're playing. They have to relate to the character on some level to make their performance convincing. But, to say an actor is "playing themselves" is imposing a limitation on the actor that you have no knowledge of.

@farticusthegreat5685 6 жыл бұрын

The greatest acting is not acting

@isadoraviana1627 5 жыл бұрын

There can't be a precise answer since it's just his personal opinions. At the end of the day it's just a feelings...often times there are no words to describe how or why a certain person makes you feel a certain way. It's such a subjective topic. Everyone has their likes and dislikes and what they think is good vs bad acting.

@kanibal2g4 9 жыл бұрын

So.. What makes a great actor again ...

@fifthelement1346 9 жыл бұрын

Aaron Smallwood What I got from is, you don't act, you ARE, you embody the character.. but honestly I can't understand what he's saying due to his speech impediment.

@jayhedges2100 8 жыл бұрын

+TheCosmos thats acting class day 1

@rarrley6581 8 жыл бұрын

+Jay Hedges that's why it's important. People forget that after a while

@Dani_1012 6 жыл бұрын

Be the character. Become the character. Get to know the character to the point it's easy to act like them

@Alex-dk1um 2 жыл бұрын

I’m just going to put this out there for all the aspiring actors…. Give up.

@ajwmcintyre 9 жыл бұрын

I've seen the Hulk. Nick Nolte ain't too great.

@paulcervenka 9 жыл бұрын

I mean...not really a good example at all LOL.

@VchmpCTBound 9 жыл бұрын

Gotta watch more film. Nick Nolte has been around a long time. Doing great films.

@savedfaves 9 жыл бұрын

Andy McIntyre Watch down and out in Beverly Hilly, watch Three Fugitives, watch The Fighter. He's a very good actor.

@shooterbro2008 8 жыл бұрын

Watch the warrior dude great performance

@darrenraleigh1986 6 жыл бұрын

Watch "Farewell to the King." Nick Nolte is stunningly good, because he's never acting. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrGqZJShsKu2h2w.html

@markuslebt 7 жыл бұрын

what makes a great actor ? the ability to hide your true identity. this man for example is also known under the names "mariano rajoy" and "john cleese". but he's too good of an actor for you to realize that.

@keshavthakur2262 6 жыл бұрын

how can hide our true identity can you explain or suggest about method acting ? i am beginner in acting so how to practice everyday to enhance my skills and craft

@danyt1232 4 жыл бұрын

@@keshavthakur2262 Acting is about exposing your true identity. Every character comes from within yourself. You interpret how you're character behaves, you use your own imagination and experiences to empathise with them. If you want to learn method acting, look up acting classes you can attend that teach it.

@keshavthakur2262 4 жыл бұрын

@@danyt1232 i am from india i dont have knowledge about method classes . Iread only on books

@keshavthakur2262 4 жыл бұрын

@@danyt1232 please suggest if you have any option to learn best and give links too

@danyt1232 4 жыл бұрын

Keshav Thakur I ain’t got any suggestions on where exactly to learn best in India. All I can say is keep with the reading but also look in your country if there are opportunities to join youth theatres or take part in workshops. You need as much experience and training as you can get, before you can consider to start working pro, getting agents and shit

@phantomathmedia3767 3 жыл бұрын

You want to be an actor? Rule 1) Don't Act

@leejee88 9 жыл бұрын

i find psychiatric direction appalling as well because your only pretending .You don't act out crazy you act out the actions of someone who is crazy.Which comes from understanding what it means to be crazy.

@jeffersonsmith2728 Жыл бұрын

And What Makes A Great Actor????? Just a lot blabla about three actors.

@ahumanjustbeing2466 7 жыл бұрын

im gonna make a tape of me interacting with 5 different ppl(a wife, a child, an elderly person, a gay sibling and a corrupt boss...all in 5 minutes) My skills will be so obvious to the naked eyes of casting directors that they will literally beg me to move to hollyweird...i will be greater than "marlon stewart"!!!