So, you’re a trained actor, some Stanislavski, some Meisner, maybe Morris, lots of improv, dozens of audition classes and cold reading classes, you maybe have even done some Theatre to ‘strut and fret your hour upon the stage’ as it were, you’ve trekked to NC and Atlanta and New Orleans for auditions and callbacks, you’ve taken every weekend workshop with every LA teacher that blows through the state and you feel, you know, you can act, you can create, you can make a character come to life, and you book a day on a TV show and your moment comes and the director says, “Just give a look, you know, raise your eyebrow”…. Yep, that’s your direction. “Raise your eyebrow.”…. Now that’s what Chekov was talking about in his development of his technique of the Psychological Gesture…. NOT!!! [...]
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