{"id":7219,"date":"2007-11-06T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2010-06-29T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:33:31","slug":"speaking-of-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7219","title":{"rendered":"Actors and Acting: What I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like all kinds of acting. I’m not a purist in terms of style. If it’s good, if it makes me laugh\/cry\/shout “Oooh”\/think – then I’m all for it. I don’t care how you get there. I love Errol Flynn and I love Meryl Streep. Anyone who can come to life under imaginary circumsances – and who shares that imaginative side of themselves freely with us in the audience – has my undying love.<\/p>\n

There are those who must do gads of research in order to feel they have the right to play a part. I love them.<\/p>\n

There are those who believe in going moment to moment and that’s enough. I love them too.<\/p>\n

There are those who are comedically minded, and whose sensibility always steers them towards the funny potential in any scene. I love them.<\/p>\n

There are those who have a more sentimental mindset, and who are more at home in weepy melodramas. I adore those people.<\/p>\n

I’m talking about good<\/i> actors now.<\/p>\n

And I also love an actor who freely, openly, with no shame (that’s key: NO SHAME) goes for the camp. Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby<\/i> is the best example I can think of. He has no self-protection as an actor. It is riotous. Like my acting teacher Sam once said, “When you get to be my age, you have no shame left, and you feel lucky to just be standing up there.” I love the actor who knows a ba-dum-ching when he sees one and plays it with no selfconsciousness. Someone who, even in closeup, even in deep deep closeup – allows themselves to be seen as ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Ahem.<\/p>\n


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And let’s just take a look at that first one again, shall we? It’s a perfect example of what I am talking about. Uhm ….<\/p>\n

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I like all kinds of acting. I’m not a purist in terms of style. If it’s good, if it makes me laugh\/cry\/shout “Oooh”\/think – then I’m all for it. I don’t care how you get there. I love Errol Flynn … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[120,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12408,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/12408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}