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Anna Selivanova (Anja)

Found myself in the Belgian newspaper where they were talking about the film shooting for the series 'Breendonk' that took place on the Big Square in Antwerp the previous week, where I participated as an extra.
That was a fun day, and I really enjoyed it. Cheering with a whole group of other extras wearing 40s style clothing has something to it, haha!

Snippet of the picture found in the Belgian newspaper 'Het Nieuwsblad' about the film shooting of Breendonk on the Big Square in Antwerp
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Some pictures of the film shooting of Breendonk on the Big Square in Antwerp
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Some pictures of the film shooting of Breendonk on the Big Square in Antwerp
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Some pictures of the film shooting of Breendonk on the Big Square in Antwerp
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#acting#actress#extras
David August

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."

-Tim Curry

#acting#coaching#inspiration
Mark A. Rayner

“Wait, wait, what are you doing?”

“I’m, you know, acting,” I said to my professor, Fred Euringer.

“No, no, you should be thinking about what the character is feeling.”

I was playing Francisco, one of the guards in the first scene of Hamlet. He has eight lines. The longest of these was only 13 words. He doesn’t appear again in the play... He was *barely* a character. I looked at my professor, baffled.

markarayner.com/darkness-delig

photo of a ruined tower with a dark purple sky in the background and a light in the one window
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#essay#acting#theatre
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Today, an intimacy coordinator would be on set to ensure I was comfortable with such a sensitive scene, but we didn't have that kind of protection in 1960. I was expected to follow the director's instructions. When I refused, crying because I was embarrassed to wear something so revealing, I was reminded that it was part of the job. Were they taking advantage of my youth and inexperience? Absolutely, but I didn't have a choice."

ew.com/nancy-kwan-recalls-figh

EW.comNancy Kwan recalls fight that 'exploded' over underwear on the 'World of Suzie Wong' setFamed actress Nancy Kwan opens up about a bitter conflict with her 'The World of Suzie Wong' director Richard Quine over undergarments that left her feeling 'vulnerable' in her new memoir.
#aapi#aanhpi#movies
Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦

Happy 91st, Shirley! 🎂

Shirley MacLaine Moments That Always Leave Us Starstruck | TCM 🎞️

We are wishing a very happy birthday to the legend that is Shirley MacLaine! From playing a gangster's fiancée in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) to the glamorous wife of a business mogul in Being There (1979), these are just a few of our favorite stand-out roles of hers.

youtube.com/watch?v=Rwi1ymWrNWs

YouTubeShirley MacLaine Moments That Always Leave Us Starstruck | TCMBy Turner Classic Movies
#ShirleyMacLaine#Acting#TCM
Assoc for Scottish Literature

For William Shakespeare’s (probable) birthday:

“This single poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, and to the heart of form, the heart of voice and silence and to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop.”

—Ali Smith, on “Instructions to an Actor”, by Edwin Morgan

A recording of Ian McKellen reading ‘Instructions to an Actor’ in July 1979:

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Edwin Morgan Instructions to an Actor Now, boy, remember this is the great scene. You’ll stand on a pedestal behind a curtain, the curtain will be drawn, and then you don’t move for eighty lines; don’t move, don’t speak, don’t breathe. I’ll stun them all out there, I’ll scare them, make them weep, but it depends on you. I warn you eighty lines is a long time, but you don’t breathe, you’re dead, you’re a dead queen, a statue, you’re dead as stone, new-carved, new-painted and the paint not dry – we’ll get some red to keep your lip shining – and you’re a mature woman, you’ve got dignity, some beauty still in middle age, and you’re kind and true, but you’re dead, your husband thinks you’re dead, the audience thinks you’re dead, and you don’t breathe, boy, I say you don’t even blink for eighty lines, if you blink you’re out! Fix your eye on something and keep watching it.
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Practise when you get home. It can be done. And you move at last – music’s the cue. When you hear a mysterious solemn jangle of instruments, make yourself ready. Five lines more, you can lift a hand. It may tingle a bit, but lift it – slow, slow – O this is where I hit them right between the eyes, I’ve got them now – I’m making the dead walk – you move a foot, slow, steady, down, you guard your balance in case you’re stiff, you move, you step down, down from the pedestal, control your skirt with one hand, the other hand you now hold out – O this will melt their hearts if nothing does – to your husband who wronged you long ago and hesitates in amazement to believe you are alive. Finally he embraces you, and there’s nothing I can give you to say, boy, but you must show that you have forgiven him. Forgiveness, that’s the thing. It’s like a second life. I know you can do it. – Right then, shall we try?
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#Scottish#literature#poem
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