"Don't direct the scene." That was the note Marc-Anthony gave me in class the other day. It's very important for an actor to do their character homework, building a bio, breathing life into that person you're portraying. However a very interesting thing I found out on friday is that as it is important to figure out who your character is, it is also equally important to make sure you don't try to force a scene to go a certain way (holding on to that homework), it ruins the natural flow of the emotion.
It is vital that there is a natural flow to scenes or else the actor is just speaking at a body. Although me and my partner were connected I wanted the scene to go one way so I actually ended up dropping my partner accidentally. How do I avoid this? Let my partner truly effect me, be effected before reacting. Now something learned from another teacher at YSAA, Kirsten Clarkson, who is also the Artistic Director, is that you should always have a bias opinion on what is going to happen. That way you can have a natural reaction to things said, done, not said, or not done.
I hunger to do this scene again on Wednesday so I can go into it with no intention of making a fight start between the two characters. Who knows maybe ill break down, or maybe ill get hysterical. I can't rob myself, or the audience, of that "buzzing" one gets when you see, or feel a real and entertaining scene.'
I love class because it breaks down walls I put up, and I feel like friday really broke down a wall, and I hope next week breaks down another.
Acting has changed my life, it has made me somebody who I hoped to be and I have just started.
Written by: Dylan Padgett
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