Dear John. I am a musician, and I am applying the most powerful principle of this lesson to my musicianship. This may well be the best music lesson in the world too! Many thanks for sharing your wisdom.

Hmnn interesting and thanks Windsor Cunningham...

Im not here to be an actor but i got him. If im not interested in you why you should be in me

I used to do this when i was studying in my final exams, it's very helpful

Who do you listen to when playing a character in solitude? Castaway, Moon, etc...

Thank you!!! Quick and succinct. Excellent!!!

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Thank you.

everything comes back to presence.

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This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned that we need to learn. It would’ve been even better with apple pie to share … cherry pie, too. ❤️ Really listening to hear what someone is saying is hard in everyday life as well. ❤️ Sending love to open hearts and ears, from Mississippi

Very helpful sir

Tip 2. Excellent. Great video

Listening...today they call it "selling".

This is of course true for singers as well.

Is this authentic? Looked more like a performance

Thank you! You are brilliant!

Very good, your acting just got better and better as you listened more and more

1. Don’t make the audition a big deal. 2. When you go into the room, it’s never going to be exactly as you expect it to be. Be re 3. Be friendly from the start. Thank them for seeing you. 4. Research who you’re auditioning for and, if there’s a link, mention it with praise (i.e. I love that production/actor). 5. Don’t carry anything with you into the audition room except your script. 6. Keep the speech down to a minute. 7. Don’t direct your speech at the person you’re auditioning for. 8. When they ask you a question, don’t keep it short. Answer the question fully. 9. At the end of your audition, thank them, turn, walk to the door, look back and say “have a nice day”, then leave. 10. Act well. This comes with experience.

Thank you!

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Who is this man?

Brilliant!

Oh my god and he even portrays a such a vivid picture, bravo.

amazing

I have yet so start my career but I'm already taking advice on how to save it???

I watched this video a year ago and now i came back here because i suddenly figured out the psychology behind it : we have 2 thinking models: autopilot and actual thinking. they are called system 1 and system 2. most of our lives we think and live in autopilot. we barely use system 2 because it is extremely tiring, we use it in situations in which we never found ourselves before, or solving problems that are above our autopilot limit but it's not all to it--- having your subconsciousness engaged is also a key because otherwise you won't look authentically. subconsciousness is responsible for how we truly and actually feel. it can awake system 2. and it can also work other way around - by purposefully explaining to ourselves why we need to do something - it can awoke our excitement. (it also can happen as a background process which we don't realize) so basically when he wasn't listening he was using system 1 aka autopilot, but by hearing statements 'you are not listening to me' his curiosity or distress were provoked and it made him finally use system 2 to find out what actually his deal is (i hope it's helpful <3)

Very interesting.

❤❤❤ yes yes.. We have to apply this..

Didn't you give a demo within a Houston emergency shelter in 2015 or 16?❤🎉😂

THANK YOU!!!! The most important lesson for acting and Improv. Loved how he delivered this, with the pauses. I will remember this special share. Something about him grabs you in.

A comment from me that this seems too basic now, and I can make easily a much better video about all this, so it's coming soon hopefully. (late 2023) ! John Windsor-Cunningham

Wow. Blown away simply by the personality that's expressed by the man in the video. It was soo interesting to watch...

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dang. good lesson in general

Fantastic and valuable.

I’m Leaving This Comment Here Maybe After Few Years I Would Come Back Here And Say “ This Video Changed My Life “ .

Someone else went over this concept in a different video and it's something I'm still processing. Feeding off the other players.

Get off

Yes. I think acting is about making other people believe fake scenarios, but to make it believable, you have to believe it. You have to break down the script and the character’s life and take in the scenarios and what other people are saying and become that character. You need to make that character’s life, your life and that character’s mindset, your mindset. You might have to do some research, and that’s ok. I also agree with the listening bit because if you don’t listen, you can’t take in everything that is happening in your character’s life, you need to bring real emotions so you will have to believe. <3

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Fantastic.

Is this John Windsor Cunningham's old youtube video?

You probably have the best acting advice on this entire platform. I enjoy your advice very much thank you

Bravo!!!

“Don’t play the part be the part” - someone very wise

I like him, I don’t know him but I got this short film coming up, and this my first time and I’m truck driving. So I’m reading and dropping load’s. But the last few days I been watching this guy teach

Great tip Thank you 🙏🏼

Love this guy

My tip: Record yourself reading the lines and listen to them several times before you try to memorize them. It should make it easier as your process becomes more memorization intensive.