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Actors on Acting #11--The Script (Download Word version of #11)
© 2004 Hawk Storm
In preparation let the script affect you. Read it over and over until all the bits come together.--Sean Penn
I read the script once and often don’t remember the plot. I focus simply on the scene.--
Meryl Streep
I find that by just concentrating on the scene that some interesting choices are revealed.--Christopher Walken
Woody Allen doesn’t normally let the actors read the entire script.--
Martin Landau
Read the script. Then break it down and bring it back to the experience of the first read.--Kevin Spacey
Trust in the moment and the writing.--
Michael Douglas
Before an audition ask yourself where the character was a few moments before the beginning of the scene.--Glen Close
What is the character about?
Then find something like that in you. Use sense memory to be able to flash on something. For me it is touch. Relaxation comes from the truthfulness of the circumstances the actor creates. You must draw upon your past and use your imagination. Then see the character physically.--
Sigourney Weaver
There is the thinking part that goes before.
Understand the situation the character is in. In my first read I am open to an impulse or an instinct. If it works, everything else opens up. If not get all the information about the character you can from the script especially from what the other characters say.
But if you do get that instinct, stay with it, hold on to it.--Gwyneth Paltrow
If you come to know the character too well during filming, back off and let the character breath and you get
yourself out of the way.--Richard Gere
Great actors allow themselves to get out of the way.--Hugh Jackmon
If the script does not give you enough, then you need to make it up
and make it fun for you. Create a full and complete history and be specific.--Samuel L. Jackson
I read the script over and over and then something will hook me.
It could be just a few words. I then think about it in my daily activities.--Julianne Moore
For inspiration remember that people are interesting. You must find something
interesting in every character.
But it won’t just happen for you. You must work at it.--John Travolta
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