She says the method acting, the technique made famous in the 50s with Marlon Brando and James Dean, isn’t what actors should be taught. Acting was, to me, about the joy of discovering another human being and living through them.Īcting coach Warner Loughlin gets that feeling and she’s written a wonderful new book called, The Warner Loughlin Technique: An Acting Revolution, that debunks the nonsense of tortured actor.
To me, it just wasn’t what acting was about. I’d be in class just feeling so bad for that actor and so skeevy that I just witnessed such a personal moment.
It also seemed that the teachers were oddly happy when they finally got a student to break down and reveal some of their inner demons. I didn’t want to go and mine anything painful from my past, because… well, why? Why would I want to go back and relive a pet dying or a break up with a girlfriend? It was the last thing I wanted to do. And most of the time it worked fine until I was asked to do some dramatic scene.
I took that to heart because they knew more then me. When I first started taking acting classes in college and my first couple of years in Los Angeles, every acting teacher would tell their students that they needed to draw from personal experiences.
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