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Dancers can be heard to say “I can express anything”, actors tend to have more of a sense of what they are able to inhabit or convey better than other things. What do you think I am less and more likely to be able to express, inhabit, play…?

 

Likely to able to:

“Express death”

“Would have ideas of how to join two static positions/postures in space”

“Play a traitor or betrayer”

“Epic things, war stuff, part of an army in any class, roman antiquity, you’d get some rolls in those things.”

“Youthfulness, energy, play, comical, reaching your audience, read and laugh, like you are a stnd up comedian, get a really string response from people because they see an innocence. Deep themes but making people feel safe”

“Projections about positive rather than negative things.”

“The heroes side kick.”

“The hero.”

“Aristocrat.”

“A kind person.”

“The good guy.”

“The evil one.”

“Be funny.”

“Be serious.”

“You wouldn’t be very limited”

“Somebody quit sensitive, that thinks more than acts, in tune with environment, quite relaxed in where they are.”

“A lot of energy, movement strength, gesture.”

“You command space, you have a presence in space.”

“Prospector in a western, hunting for gold”

"Play the role of Michael Donovan in the film in the Opposite of Sex, quite melllow and layed back characters."

 

Unlikely to be able to:       

“Will not express a multitude of people.”

“I haven’t seen you do something today that shows nuiance of details, although I think you probably could.”

“A one legged black lesbian”

“Shakespere.”

“You might struggle in a crowd.”

“1930’s Hollywood films (unless the musicals). The first talkies were very static because the actors had to stay in one spot because of the rudimentary sound technology, they could barely move their heads even.”

“To manage to do something with less information.”

“Character in mythical or fantasy stories, such as playing a pixie king.”

“To evoke fear, frighten, intimidate people.”

“Not the hero.”

“Working class or brutish person.”

“An immigrant.”

“A chav.”

“A bad person.”

“A funny person.”

“A soap opera character.”

“Someone really butch, or a Neanderthal man.”

"Playing some kind of incredibly aggressive in your face, gangster, or Mike Jagger type rock star, total extravert."

 

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