Actor training is essential to empowering you with the confidence and focus needed to embody a character in an audition. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to make clear concise decisions on every line and moment, act with intensity and strength, communicate succinctly with other characters, or connect to the audience.
I see this mostly in theater auditions. When it comes to screen tests and auditions for film, I see actor after actor deliver the same lines in the same way over and over and over again. The unblinking intensity is the same. The eye line is the same. The pauses, the same.
Yes, the scene we’re asking actors to perform for screen tests is the same, but the choices you make as an individual don’t have to be. It’s dull, it’s predictable. When it comes to auditions, unless you’re reading for a powerful lead role (or a superhero), that intensity isn’t always necessary. What is necessary, however, is vulnerability.
An alpha character has strong eye contact, stands his or her ground, steps toward a conflict or crisis. Supporting roles…not so much. But even when an actor is auditioning for one of these supporting roles, this is the delivery approach they take. What actors need to
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