Some big things, The question of Life...

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Hot off my mind, and onto the interweb comes my latest blog installment.

I had an Interesting talk with my niece last night.
Her question to me...

Can you cry on cue?

The discussion then moved onto a twisting journey about life experience and how it correlates to Acting. I told her that:
"Yes, crying on cue could be good, but what's behind it? Where does it come from? Why are you crying?"


Her response told me that we had gone onto two separate topics, So ironically I told her to come back to me with a clearer question based on what she was curious about (usually I'm the unclear one).

This little story leads me to my brief topic today.

Life Experience - Acting.

It's a massive topic, I'm not going to cover it with 200 words nor will I cover it with 1,000,000.

So I'll begin with what I know.

I'm 20 years old. I went to an all boys school. I'm from another country. I've never seen Titanic; been in Love; lost somebody in my immediate family or any of my closest friends (for which I am extremely grateful).

So in many respects my life experience is not that vast. There are many roles that are beyond my life experience. (I mean I don't ever want to know what it's like to get revenge on a villainous organisation for taking all the things dear to me, and end up killing scores of bad guys - that's a bit absurd).
There are things I do know, these things make up my life experience and who I am.

I believe at this point in time that relating these experiences to my acting will help me with the things I do not know.

How do I relate my life experience to a character who has experienced things I have not?
(I'm not talking about method acting - sure, I take my thinking from some of it's principles, however I'm trying to look specifically Life experience in relation to acting).

So where am I going with this?
I guess upon reflection, I recently have experienced and am about to encounter  some massive events in my life, and I'm wondering what wider effect it will have on my acting (It probably won't be visible on the outside, but it'll be definitely be internally)?

Nevertheless, I think I need to get a little bit specific and find something Tangible within the topic that I can work on... Possibly I could pick a monologue from a Character who's Life experiences are very very different to my own and go from there?

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