With our Backstage Expert contributors spanning various areas of this business, they’ve worked with countless actors in their careers, so we knew they’d be the perfect group to ask the following question:
What’s the best advice an actor’s ever given you?
(And if you missed the last installment of this column, check out “What Are Some Qualities of Successful Working Actors?” see how to get your acting questions answered at the bottom of this article!)
Here are seven Backstage Experts on the meaningful advice actors have shared with them:
Joanne Baron, L.A.-based acting teacherOne of the first films I did, I played opposite Lorraine Bracco and Tom Berenger and I noticed Lorraine entered every scene doing a physical action: biting her nail, adjusting her watch, etc.
I finally asked her why she was always doing something. She said that she had coached with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro and they both said that entering a scene was just as important as the scene itself—that life starts from offstage, rather than entering as if just to do an acting “scene.”
I started to look at the entrances of great actors and, whether it was in theater, TV, or film, I was surprised to
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