EMOTIONS How To Act Realistically PART 2

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[@mcwoody0160]

Do you have any advice on not getting nervous I would love to act but I get so nervous

[@iananimations5640]

The Actors Academy I’m in a new tv show can you make a video on how to act scared. I am also an 11 years old please give me a shout out.

[@mcwoody0160]

@@iananimations5640 nice what TV show

[@skyguy_5019]

Can i buy this masterclass, because im from switzerland and a REALLY wanna learn all this🔥

[@blandy9172]

@@mcwoody0160 if you're going for an audition and you're nervous, act like you are excited to audition, because they're similar emotions

[@pateristic]

Can you make another part of acting with emotions like featuring facial expressions of the sadness, happiness, fear, etc. Give us tips and on how to improve doing it! Your videos helps a lot brother, thank you so much!

[@wampaproductions1152]

you should watch the four muscles of the face, just be natural

[@kenzieRC]

I think you should be Aladdin

[@adamsultan_1]

KenzieRC I think Aladdin should be middle eastern not white

[@apemangeezer6969]

But he kinda looks middle Eastern And no I'm not being racist just in case someone thinks I am

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Haha I did audition for Aladdin when it was being cast

[@kenzieRC]

@@TheActorsAcademy nice

[@aaronbassie2908]

I believe he would of made a great Aladdin

[@behzadg1862]

Hey man i just wanted to say dont give up on making videos! You are great! :)))

[@TheActorsAcademy]

:)

[@violetfrankson5924]

Nice!!! Learning to become more & more "AWARE" of Our Feelings, developing a greater AWARENESS of the intensity of the "FEELING," We are giving to that personification.♡

[@lovelydolltime8006]

This helps a lot when it comes to ditching school, especially when you have to perform in front of your parents.

[@suchaposer1623]

This is such a great video! I really appreciate all of the videos you make. They're very helpful and they answer so many questions I was thinking of. Thank you!

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Of course :))

[@thequeerkid9391]

It’s hard for me to show actual feelings so 80% of the time I fake it so I am kinda good at this already, but you know, better to be prepared

[@Shadbae]

Holy sheet acting is exactly how i imagined it would be im already doing that and im starting acting classes in the fall im so happy i think i might become famous one day

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Fame is really hard to achieve and there is no guarantee to it, so it’s important to know this, but keep that energy you got! This industry is still hard to make it in

[@sannansaleh_]

thanks for the great advice! one friendly tip for the future: you often repeat yourself a lot which makes it harder to stay attentive; just trying to help not criticize!

[@dominickeefe2454]

Great. Preamble line of what you'd feel in real life before the scripted text. It really works

[@Grazey]

Love the channel Your videos have really been helping me be more confident in mine, over the course of 4 uploads my pitch went down, i talked more fluently and i spoke louder Significantly increasing average watchtime.

[@Awakentogrowth]

I have a very strong Hispanic accent and I'm just 19. Do you think it's possible to improve my American accent?

[@thelionater4640]

Daniel Silva sure just keep practicing

[@lunagonzalez4976]

Hey, I struggle with my accent too. I read out loud a lot, and practice with like tongue twisters Doing theater really helps especially when doing voice and speech warmups. These are tips I got I'm sorry if I don't explain them very well. A general tip is to try to really hit those consonants, maybe exaggerate them a little bit. if you have lines you can try reading the lines with a cork in your mouth (you can use one or two fingers if you don't have a cork). this helps you use your lips and muscles to speak instead of your jaw. keep practicing your teeth shouldn't leave marks on the cork if you do then your jaw is putting too much pressure.

[@lcve5881]

Of course

[@savannahmondrush]

Thank you so much. This video helps me a lot!

[@cybertteoki]

A great tool for practicing! Thank you!

[@TheActorsAcademy]

:)

[@missacab7086]

He looks like jughead and Reggie from riverdale If they had a kid

[@hiilikespicynoodles5873]

He reminds me of sweet pea from river dale

[@A-G-A-G]

I love that you constantly use meryl Streep as the gold standard example (as you should)

[@_yaowm]

This is sooo helpful

[@digitalcloud9807]

Thank you for your super helpful informations

[@istandwithisreal8883]

Thank u for helping out 😁

[@aayraaccharya1894]

Thank you

[@Mr.Honest247]

Super helpful!!!

[@kristendown217]

How exactly are you szpposed to raise the percentage?

[@aaravacts1481]

Thank you very much sir ji. Love you.....🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@fggyleafexist1753]

I'm keep picturing you doing that wand thing on DIsley Channel for some reason

[@jermesha7817]

Wow thanks

[@camuhi]

Please make a video about where to live to be an actor, which city in us offers you the most opportunities

[@SoraiaLMotta]

nice tip.

[@person-yk7kn]

So I live In Michigan do I still have a chance at becoming an actor

[@nishimura_hotaru2518]

Obvs 🙄 Your probably amazing and you should totally go for it. Explore and travel the world to get auditions 😁 Bit late but good luck 🤞

[@13gudadod]

♥️

[@TheActorsAcademy]

😊

[@anshuljain1917]

Hey but i have a question if someone is playing himself every time.. He will be the same man in his entire filmography.. There is not gonna be much difference like Daniel day Lewis and christian bale never repeat themselves they are different in every film.. So if u r talking about auditions only.. then I can understand we can not create character in 15 minutes..😊 PS - "I love your channel"

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Hey Anshul, in terms of creating different characters, every time we play another version of ourselves we are creating what we would call another character. If you are a positive person for 95% of your life, but for 5% you are negative, when you change the ratio to being 30% positive 70% negative there in itself has created a new character. When we’re negative we naturally walk and talk differently, we respond to comments differently and we look at others in a way we don’t when we’re positive. It‘s still YOU, but all you did was change the ratio of negative/positive percentage. These are of course example numbers, but you can pick/switch-out which emotions/what percentages you think would fit for a character. Sometimes in our lives we might be a bit of a jokester, not all the time, but maybe for a rare 2% moment we are. If we maintain everything we do when we are joking, but we do it more often bringing that 2% to a 40% ratio, that would create a new character. If you watch J. k. Simmons in the original “Spider-Man” franchise or you watch him in “Whiplash” it is still J. K. Simmons; we can tell it’s him, but the ratio/percentage of his emotions do not stay a constant from each role. In Whiplash he enlightens his side of rage and annoyance, while in Spider-Man he highlights his arrogance more. This is why Actors on TV shows get great opportunities to show character arks through each season, because they can change/develop the percentage that is given. This is what you and most actors will be dealing with throughout your career. Of course there are exceptions to this when you are playing a real life person or a period piece, than you have different guideline to follow (Christian Bale & Daniel Day Lewis). Remember we are talking about the emotions and the percentage that we give them. If we know roughly what our normal state is, then when we tweak the ratio we are inherently creating a new character, but it is still us. That’s what 95% of our work will be. Of course if you feel the need to drift further from yourself you could adjust your voice, accent, and/or physicality (be careful of going overboard where it appears to caricatures though). You could do that, but you don’t need to. Examples of actors being different versions of themselves (different ratio adjustments) would be Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Owen Wilson, Will Smith, Liam Neeson, Robert De Niro, etc. You have to remember that our goal is to create interesting and appealing complex characters. We spend our whole lives thinking we have to be someone else when you yourself are already very interesting, you don’t need to try and recreate anything. Robert De Niro’s most popular quote is “you don’t need to do anything.” For example if you are 25 years old you have lived 25 years of your own personal life that nobody knows anything about and your 25 years is completely different from someone else’s. If we could have books written about our entire lives, they’d be the most interesting books on the planet. You already have everything you need and you don’t need to try and find it somewhere else, no character will be more interesting than you. This is why Meryl Streep’s quote is so important when she says “all we are doing is playing different versions of ourselves.” Hope this all makes sense Cheers

[@anshuljain1917]

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[@daiseyteniente2005]

this helped ALOT !

[@LifeasClaudette]

I love your channel Ps small youtuber

[@celenasawan3748]

Anyone know what agencies stranger things look through?

[@sharpgluestick]

Most agencies can get them to look at your demo reel

[@celenasawan3748]

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[@camerahandz]

I know that you can audition or something for a stranger things background character on a site called casting taylormade

[@haribhaskar285]

Emotions should never be played.

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Unless you’re an instrument, as our bodies are

[@riyadpatelwrites]

These videos are gold

[@franklinpringle8293]

You should be Rodrick Heffley

[@dxxgx6713]

How about micro expressions?

[@deenster]

Is it possible to act a role where the character is American if you're not? I'm Bosnian but I think it would be unnoticeable because my English is excellent.

[@anonanonymous213]

Yeah if you practice the specific American accent that the character you’re auditioning for has! Like New York, Boston, Chicago, Texas, etc. plenty of actors play characters that don’t have their accent. Look up accent expert on KZbin

[@HunnidHouseProductions]

So with being yourself would that go with playing a real-life person in a biopic?

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Hey there, in short it would normally be different for a biopic. I’ll leave the long form answer below. So in terms of creating different characters, every time we play another version of ourselves we are creating what we would call another character. If you are a positive person for 95% of your life, but for 5% you are negative, when you change the ratio to being 30% positive 70% negative there in itself has created a new character. When we’re negative we naturally walk and talk differently, we respond to comments differently and we look at others in a way we don’t when we’re positive. It‘s still YOU, but all you did was change the ratio of negative/positive percentage. These are of course example numbers, but you can pick/switch-out which emotions/what percentages you think would fit for a character. Sometimes in our lives we might be a bit of a jokester, not all the time, but maybe for a rare 2% moment we are. If we maintain everything we do when we are joking, but we do it more often bringing that 2% to a 40% ratio, that would create a new character. If you watch J. k. Simmons in the original “Spider-Man” franchise or you watch him in “Whiplash” it is still J. K. Simmons; we can tell it’s him, but the ratio/percentage of his emotions do not stay a constant from each role. In Whiplash he enlightens his side of rage and annoyance, while in Spider-Man he highlights his arrogance more. This is why Actors on TV shows get great opportunities to show character arks through each season, because they can change/develop the percentage that is given. This is what you and most actors will be dealing with throughout your career. Of course there are exceptions to this when you are playing a real life person or a period piece, than you have different guideline to follow (Christian Bale & Daniel Day Lewis). In those circumstances you would need to highly analyze the person you are recreating to a T. This cannot only rely on your acting though (in order to get the whole character to be found believable by the audience). The tone of the film would need to be set precisely (Directors, casting, DP’s, etc.) costuming and makeup are extremely large elements to this. Remember when we playing sides of ourselves, we are talking about the emotions and the percentage that we give them. If we know roughly what our normal state is, then when we tweak the ratio we are inherently creating a new character, but it is still us. That’s what 95% of our work will be. Of course if you feel the need to drift further from yourself you could adjust your voice, accent, and/or physicality (be careful of going overboard where it appears to caricatures though). You could do that, but you don’t need to. Examples of actors being different versions of themselves (different ratio adjustments) would be Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Owen Wilson, Will Smith, Liam Neeson, Robert De Niro, etc. You have to remember that our goal is to create interesting and appealing complex characters. We spend our whole lives thinking we have to be someone else when you yourself are already very interesting, you don’t need to try and recreate anything. Robert De Niro’s most popular quote is “you don’t need to do anything.” For example if you are 25 years old you have lived 25 years of your own personal life that nobody knows anything about and your 25 years is completely different from someone else’s. If we could have books written about our entire lives, they’d be the most interesting books on the planet. You already have everything you need and you don’t need to try and find it somewhere else, no character will be more interesting than you. This is why Meryl Streep’s quote is so important when she says “all we are doing is playing different versions of ourselves.” Hope this all makes sense Cheers

[@jaelynnspencer6428]

I tend to act best in a sad scene should I be worried

[@SalvadorOlagueOfficial]

When you are acting you are just being your self …😤

[@sanoncrack2202]

how do i find an agent?

[@KC-nv6qf]

yeehaw He has a vid on that.

[@AlejandroPerez-sd1ks]

I don’t know to use backstage

[@KC-nv6qf]

Alejandro Perez You have to sign in to actually submit for the jobs.

[@help7494]

i know this has nothing to do with the video but is there any open casts in stranger things yet?

[@skypie2083]

help lmao

[@help7494]

yes i have an agent

[@help7494]

wait so i have to be in L.A?

[@eliasprodger]

help no they film it in Atlanta

[@llagojulio5084]

Hi

[@bilalxmxmd8400]

Bro ur the guy from dhar man

[@emilyteehee1991]

I want to audition for Stranger things but Idk how