Actors Flashcards
(11 cards)
True or false Judy Garland was paid $500 a day in the 1939 production of the Wizard of Oz while the scarecrow and tin man were paid $3000 a day.
Sadly that shit is true bitches. 
Finish the sentence. An actors instrument is…
Themselves
Who wrote the screenplay the verdict?
David Mamet
When he talks about actresses and says that “they may be asked to bear their breasts and or bottoms or both. They know they’ll be asked to lose 10 pounds before shooting starts” what is he setting up a need for? 
Intimacy coordinators. 
He believes that the second or third day of script reading around the table is typically never as good as the first. Why?
Because he believes on the first day actors are acting on instinct, but instinct wears out.
What does LUMET believe kills the actors instincts?
Repetition. 
What is the most important element between the actor and the director?
Trust
True or false? While shooting a scene LUMET slapped and actor because she was unable to draw emotions necessary for the scene?
True. He had tremendous self loathing afterwards and promised himself that if he couldn’t achieve a shot by craft he would not do that again.
What does the Greek concept of tragedy is for royalty mean?
It means that tragedy’s dramatic power depends on the fall of great individuals, it was traditionally written about kings and nobles. This makes their personal flaws, decisions, and suffering resonate with larger social and cosmic consequences.
He believes that the basis on which everything is built with actors relies upon what?
The actors talking to and listening to one another. 
He describes Sanford Meisner as one of the greatest acting coaches of all time. What does he say that Meisner does in the first few weeks with beginning actors.
He gets them to really talk and listen to one another.
