My brother has a great piece up listing 10 books that inspire him as an actor, and they are not what you would expect. A wonderful piece about how stories can transport us, how certain books can help you leap into other worlds – an ability that an actor, no matter how big, how small, must always keep fresh. If you can’t do that? You can’t do anything.
Brendan writes:
Reading can be a direct channel to those gifts which give us our power as performers. They will not fail us. But they will recede if we do not feed them. They can find nourishment deep within the secret passageways of our imaginations but we have to find those catalysts further and further from ourselves if we are to be truly free as artists.
And remember, they might be printed on paper and pulp, but words are the original CGI. Anything is possible.
I LOVE this! My books aren’t his books (of course), but I certainly have a set of “reference material” that inspires me.
thanks for posting this sheil!
Really great article. Loved the idiosynratic choices and the insight into an actor’s life. I commented over there, thanks for drawing my attention to it.
His analysis of Ferdinand really brought a lump to my throat.