Er … am I missing something here? Isn’t acting … you know … acting? As in pretending to be someone other than you, doing something other than what you’d do, somewhere other than where you actually are? This is cheating, surely. Next, he’ll be insisting on really getting stabbed in knife fights, really dying in car crashes and so on. What happened to the noble art of pretence?
I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch this movie without thinking of Jarry (dear, dear Jarry) stumbling around off-set, walking into broom cupboards …
As far as I am concerned,actors and athletes can take and go to any lengths they want. There’s too much emphasis on what goes on behind the scenes and how they are all geniuses. I don’t fucking care. I will tell you if you are an artist or not,not the other way around.
Was this Olly Reed’s excuse?
Bonkers! But I have to admire his commitment and it certainly gets people talking about the film.
If it is a success, he’s a genius. It it flops he’s a charlatan.
Being an actor is a damn peculiar profession.
Er … am I missing something here? Isn’t acting … you know … acting? As in pretending to be someone other than you, doing something other than what you’d do, somewhere other than where you actually are? This is cheating, surely. Next, he’ll be insisting on really getting stabbed in knife fights, really dying in car crashes and so on. What happened to the noble art of pretence?
I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch this movie without thinking of Jarry (dear, dear Jarry) stumbling around off-set, walking into broom cupboards …
Irresistibly reminds one of dear old Larry response to Dustin Hoffman’s method approach on Marathon Man. “My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”
What a cheat! His job was to act like a blind man – but he actually makes himself blind using opaque contact lenses. That’s cutting corners big time.
Hope he’s not planning to play any amputees in the future.
“Break a leg, luvvie!”
As far as I am concerned,actors and athletes can take and go to any lengths they want. There’s too much emphasis on what goes on behind the scenes and how they are all geniuses. I don’t fucking care. I will tell you if you are an artist or not,not the other way around.