1. Like Yourself Turn off that picture of yourself at the front of your head of you as: too young/old/plain/fat/silly/boring/daft… 2. Believe you can do it. Keep hope, optimism,courage, confidence. 3. Keep Networking. Make that showreel. Keep writing letters. Talk to people. Join the Actors Centre etc. 3. Trust your Instincts. Follow direction […]
This is a transcription from an original family document written by my relation Joseph Churcher (b. February 12 1829, Wickham, Hampshire, England) who was chief engineer on the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert II. (We have a decanter purported to be a gift to him from Edward VII.) The letter appears to document February/March 1863 […]
What is a Sexy Voice? What do we hear as a sexy voice? Some time ago, I was asked to supply some comments for a Channel Four programme on the 100 sexiest film voices. I was asked to offer some thoughts on a list of some famously ‘sexy’ voices including Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Joanna […]
Do you have to go to drama school to be an actor? Well, if you were under 25 and asking me that question, I would certainly recommend you to do so. Life is much harder if you don’t. There are not the same opportunities in the business to apprentice as there used to be. The […]
New guest blog on @IDSAblog bit.ly/w4Xuh2
Find my guest blog on Robert Donat, his views on acting and my acting notes on: http://wp.me/p1Sr2y-D
This blog on sub-text (with lots of clips!) is a guest blog on ‘The Great Acting Blog’ – find it here: http://wp.me/p2ybSN-4KJtm
Screen acting and theatre acting have differences. Here are my big three: The first and most important is often the last one that actors think about and yet the most crucial: In theatre, there is an audience. In film, at the moment of acting, there is no audience. Sounds obvious. Yet understanding this […]
SourceURL:file:///Users/annchurcher/Documents/Teaching/RP%20extras.doc ‘S’ turns to ‘Z’ in most words with long vowels or those followed by ‘e’ (There are, as always, exceptions!) So ‘rise’ becomes ‘riZe’ ‘says’ becomes ‘sayZ’. In English ‘V’ is a consonant and always made by pressing top teeth against bottom lip. It is always sounded when ‘V’ appears and never changes to […]
A fellow Twitterer asked me recently how acting could be brave. I had been tweeting about Dominic West’s ‘brave’ performance as Fred West. Of course, I tweeted my interlocuter back explaining that, in this instance, I meant brave as in: not taking easy options, daring to fail, exciting, unusual – bravura, if you like. I […]
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