21 May
2001
21 May
'01
8:41 a.m.
On Mon, 21 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Stephen Date wrote:
--- Sally wrote: >
Another Unplanned Moment is in Redemption, where - after that first dramatic tumble - Blake keeps rubbing his wrist through the next bit of dialogue; I'm assuming that Gareth came down a little harder than planned.
Oh dear, I'd always thought that he was just being convincing.
Funnily enough, he was. One of the hardest skills to master in acting is really responding to what is really happening in the moment. A bad actor, having hurt his wrist in a fall, would pretend it hadn't happened and carry on doing exactly what he had planned to do in rehearsal. A good actor acknowledges the hurt wrist, and allows it to influence his performance.
Iain