A FEW LITTLE TIPS ABOUT...ACTING:

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

A FEW LITTLE TIPS ABOUT...ACTING:

 Cold-reading happens every week. Cold-read classes offer fast food answers for actors who don’t want to rehearse. How often do you arrive unprepared to a real audition? Almost never. Proper text analysis and rehearsal technique are both essential for serious film actors.

The lazy actor might argue, “Well, William,  sometimes you don’t have time to rehearse on set.” And I would counter, “Well, hypothetical person, paid actors sure as hell don’t have scripts in their hands either.”

An actor should build a strong foundation of fully realized performances in classes. That body of work is what you will draw from on a chaotic set. Practice and train at the level you would actually like to work in films.This is not always easy either.  I would not spend 15 minutes in a parking lot learning my script for a Steven Spielberg film. And I would not attempt it in scene study class for the same reasons. Professionals stand out, amateurs look just exactly like what they are AMATEURS.