1) Acting is re-acting. It’s true. Don’t react to anything on stage. You are dead.
2) All great actors listen to their scene partners. You can listen, but you can’t hear. Once again, you are dead.
3) Pee before you take the stage.
4) Use the 3 seconds of blackout left after you get on stage to find the most comfortable position possible.
5) If you have an itch, tough. See rule number one.
Sounds like he's out there for a looooong time. Man. I thought five minutes or so in Horror Academy was tough. Of course, that also involved the whole "stuff struggling chick in barrel, freak out about chick with gun, get shot in head and then try to be very abruptly dead with blood running down my face" thing. Possibly it would have been a bit easier under other circumstances. ;->
Still, that show -- with two characters who died very different deaths -- was the only time I've ever been pleased with how I pulled off a skill that every actor has to use sooner or later. I do not think of myself as someone who, as the phrase goes, "gives good dead." I'm curious how things will be the next time I'm called upon for it.
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