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The legendary grande dame of theater, Stella Adler, dedicated herself to mastering the craft of acting and passing the valuable knowledge onto her students. One critical element of acting, she insisted, was the actor’s imagination.  “Don’t use your conscious past…. Read More

The cheerful, charismatic actress Milana Vayntrub, popularly known as Lily in the AT&T commercials, has been enjoying a successful run of national commercials advertising the multinational communications company’s upgrade to 5G. Indeed, she’s garnered over 740,000 Instagram followers. However, Vayntrub… Read More

Have you ever been taken off the set of a movie, from the stage of a theatrical play, or jettisoned from a commercial shoot? If so, you know the unique sting and heartbreak of being rejected after you got the… Read More

In Season 9, Episode 6 of the totally bonkers Showtime series Shameless, now showing on Netflix, Courtney Cox plays a famous actress who employs a “sober companion” to keep her off the booze before an important shoot the following morning…. Read More

The auditioning process is a mysterious and Byzantine endeavor. The actor or actress stands before a cabal of appraisers and adjudicators in the casting room and give it the old college try. That can include the spilling of guts, the… Read More

“I don’t want to be a part of a world, where being kind is a weakness.” — Keanu Reeves You aspire to become a huge movie star, or at least a full-time, dedicated actor with a long list of box… Read More

https://youtu.be/aHYo9uRZ2Pw “I would like you to look at your total personality as if it were a jewel. Each facet is necessary for the structure of the polished stone if the full potential of the gem is to be revealed.” So… Read More

It’s been four years since addicted fans started watching Netflix’s Stranger Things, absorbing all the creepy happenings occurring in the fictitious town of Hawkins in the 1980s. Stranger Things was the streaming giant’s first original series, and there was no… Read More

For anyone who’s seen Charlize Theron in the 2017 action thriller Atomic Blonde, it’s quite evident the Academy Award-winning actress is a tremendously capable physical heroine with an impressive martial arts skillset. The fight scenes, many of which were filmed… Read More

It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the duplicitous, peevish Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott’s revenge epic Gladiator. At twenty-four years old, the blossoming actor… Read More

All the time and devotion poured into learning the craft of acting is not enough to land the role. Industry standards have changed, and to add to the audition jitters, today’s thespian needs to be ready to whip up a… Read More

How old are you? What? Really? Oh, okay. See, here’s the problem—you can’t lie about your age anymore! No more shaving five, ten, fifteen years off of your real age. I know, I know, it hurts, doesn’t it? But there’s… Read More

Will Ferrell is one of the most popular comedy actors of the last several decades. He’s easily recognizable from his era of films during the 2000s, which includes the buddy comedy Step Brothers, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The… Read More

Sometimes industry professionals, with all the emphasis on types, sound like high schoolers in the quad—ruthlessly assessing people’s appearances and being quick to label others. But just as teenagers grow up and realize that some people surprise you by growing… Read More

In a recent Vanity Fair interview, comedic superstar Eddie Murphy made an astounding statement, especially for an actor who’s starred in over 40 films over the course of four decades. “I’ve only had one audition my whole life, you know,”… Read More