Episode notes
“That transformation was key to my next step as an artist, to knowing that's what acting is. It isn't just posing; it isn't just being a version of yourself in a way that was free. Performing wasn't just performing; it was transforming. I think that artists find that in many different ways, and as actors, there are many ways into that.
I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Intent to Live that distills down Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, and Stanislavski. The great teachers at the Group Theatre believed that the method needed to be altered to be constructive rather than destructive to artists.
David Milch's mind is so singular because he uses language in a way that defines cha ...
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Sharon Lawrence, acting, theater, journalism, Katharine Graham, NYPD Blue, David Milch, advocacy, AI, technology, improvisation, method acting, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, environment, Heal the Bay, climate change, dolphins, ocean conservation, Viola Sp