In his book ‘A life in parts’ Bryan Cranston goes through his trials and tribulations of becoming an actor and shares with us some golden nuggets of what he’s learnt from his journey of being an actor. Bryan worked at various jobs to make ends meet while pursuing his...
The dame who snatched the Oscar for best supporting role for playing Queen Elizabeth with only 8 minutes of screen time writes in depth about her non stop acting roles during her expansive career. And how she started on stage, then moved on to television and finally...
David Niven’s The Moon’s a Balloon. Who the hell is he you might be asking – well, if you don’t know IMDB him and see an acting career that spans 5 decades which includes films such as ‘Around the world in 80 days’ ‘the guns of navarone’ and ‘The Pink Panther’...
In his book baggage Alan Cumming recounts the highs and lows of his career as an actor and at one point talks about when he trained to be an actor he was asked to perform not in his own Scottish accent but the required RP – received pronunciation – also...
There’s something that we can all learn from Peter Bogdanovich’s book ‘Who the Hells in it?’ When he was directing a film with a young actor in the late 90’s he mentioned as a way of encouraging him that he reminded him of James Cagney; the young actor had no idea who...
What can we learn from the great actress Meryl Streep? Far from fading into obscurity with the usual post fifty obsolescence, she has defied Hollywood calculus and reached a career high. In her younger days she possessed an idiosyncratic beauty and her...
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