How to Act Drunk - Choose Your Own Adventure Acting Class

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This video will show you how to act drunk. You will learn how to use grapes to slur your words and how to perform like you are tipsy, drunk, plastered and inebriated.
These lessons are based on a chapter from Uta Hagen's book "Respect for Acting", which is available here: amzn.to/3jBUVMf
This series focuses on how to perform believable behaviors and conditions. Behaviors include things like yawning, burping, drinking or being drunk. Conditions include situations the character finds themselves in, like having a heart attack, dying, being hot or cold or fatigued. Each of these requires the actor to utilize their own sense memory of these behaviors/conditions or to drum up substitutions for those situations when they haven't experienced a behavior.
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[@asterliketheflower6060]

Another example I use to act drunk is sleep deprivation, if you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter you get kinda loopy and your coordination isn’t the best.

[@AugmentedActor]

That’s great but it effects your entire performance. If you only need to play drunk in one scene (which is usually the case) you then have the rest of a show/shoot to have to pretend to be sober (or not sleep deprived). But this technique is good for anyone who hasn’t ever been drunk to feel a similar experience.

[@JoshTheTinkerer]

@@AugmentedActor for me this will work because I'm doing a Doc Holiday cosplay all day so I need the affect to last

[@AugmentedActor]

Just don’t fall on your face.

[@ACarter87]

That’s a horrible example, you’d literally be healthier getting drunk foreal than that

[@1TrueCaffeine]

@@ACarter87 no?

[@TroyDyamondWilson]

I am a drama student at a university based in London. I'm currently doing a play called Constellations, written by Nick Payne. I play the character of Roland. There is a scene in there where I am drunk. I'm a Christian. I have never drunken alcohol in my life and I shouldn't. This video comes in real handy. Thanks, AA 😁👍🏾

[@AugmentedActor]

Glad the video is helpful. Yeah, there's a lot of things we have to play as actors that we may never have or never will experience, so it's always a good thing when we can learn from someone who has experienced it

[@luluharshie3929]

I had a scene in this movie where I was 14 and supposed to be drunk but I’d never been drunk irl haha

[@AugmentedActor]

Same here. It’s tough to play something you’ve never experienced before honestly, but with careful observation you can do it. I would say that most people who play heroin addicts or people who do heavy psychedelic drugs have never actually done those drugs themselves. But there is information out there to study and people that can be observed who have done them. Btw, how did you feel about your performance in the movie?

[@luluharshie3929]

@@AugmentedActor yeah the director had me watch clips of other teenagers on like Instagram and KZbin who were drunk to get a feel for what was going on. I think i did fairly well! I had to do multiple takes to get it right but my co stars were fantastic in supporting me! Luckily the critics didn’t tear m apart so honestly thats a win for me. (Btw this is like an undercover account so I can watch interviews of me and my friends about our movies haha. This popped up on my recommended and I wanted to see if there was anything I missed from my performance a few years ago. You might have even seen the movie I did it in!)

[@AugmentedActor]

Oh well, now I’m super curious about this movie and your secret identity. I don’t expect you to blow your secret but I may need to hire a private detective to find out. Jk. Haha.

[@j0ff]

@@luluharshie3929 what's the movie?

[@hannahdoesacting5820]

Thanks! Needed this because I’m playing Mrs. Peacock in a stage production of clue (not professional on stage, school on stage) and I need to act drunk for pretty much the entire play. Thanks again!!! (Also yes I saw the comment about sleep deprivation, I don’t sleep a lot anyway though and while sometimes people comment on it looking like I’m drunk, it doesn’t happen often)

[@AugmentedActor]

The sleep deprivation is more of a way to experience some similar sensations to being drunk. I would not recommend depriving yourself of sleep to actually perform a role. But I'm glad you found some useful info in the video. Ultimately in a show like Clue, playing drunk will be a little more heightened than playing a drunk in a serious drama so you can probably have fun with it. Just remember that there are lots of subtle things that a drunk person does to try to appear NOT drunk. It's almost like it's funnier if you are slurring your speech and stumbling and trying not to let it show. Break legs in the role!

[@cosmo1775]

pov: you are here to act more drunk like cus u are gonna be the driver for tonight’s party but everyone forces u

[@AugmentedActor]

Seems like a situation where you would want to act less drunk. I’m fine. I’m the designated drive. I ain’t drunk.

[@skylerspence7878]

The guy who play Mr Lahey from trailer parks boys has master the art of acting drunk and hes a sober man in real life

[@AugmentedActor]

That's a great example! I'm a little bit the opposite. I'm good at playing sober even though I'm incredibly drunk. ;-)

[@TroyDyamondWilson]

Hey AA. So minutes after posting my previous comment, I tried it. It really worked, man. But it was also a temporarily horrible experience. I spun really fast, I couldn't keep my balance and even though I stopped spinning, everything else still was and my head started to hurt a little bit and I started feeling hungry as well. Now, I am going to learn my lines of that scene and have lunch. Thanks, bro 👍🏾

[@AugmentedActor]

Yeah be careful, but actually what you described does sound a lot like the experience of being very drunk. The trick now is to be able to replicate that feeling in a safe and responsible way on stage without having to spin around or actually get dizzy. It's more about remember the behaviors that came as a result of the spinning. Best of luck.

[@rainbowgalaixy2591]

I need this for my DnD character😅 I am a drunken bard

[@AugmentedActor]

Great fun way to apply this lesson.

[@aarondoherty9150]

For my drama class in school we're doing philedelphia here I come and i got cast as master boyle so thanks for releasing this video to help

[@AugmentedActor]

Awesome congrats on the role and I hope your drunk performance shines.

[@minecraftlover101]

I just like watching these for fun they are awesome

[@AugmentedActor]

I'm glad someone is enjoying the series. I had fun making them

[@Peter_1986]

I personally don't really act particularly unusual when I am drunk, however I have noticed that I tend to become really mellow, and start giggling a llittle bit at random things. It is kind of like a "sedated" state, where I just sit back and feel super-pleased with everything, and start showing very proud body language and making slow movements.

[@AugmentedActor]

That is a common state for drunk people. There are several stages people tend to go through when drinking. Usually they become social and laughing and outgoing for a period and then quiet and sedated and then if they keep going it usually gets loud and sloppy. While your experience of drunkenness may work for some characters, often directors want to see a slightly more elevated "drunk" as it adds more dynamics to a scene and lets the audience know the character is drunk. So you'll have to use the powers of observation and mimicry of others whenever you need to play one of those types of characters.

[@SensibleMoniker]

Thanks. I have to play Juliet (as a drunk man) in a Shakespearean farce. During rehearsals I am finding it difficult to remember my lines whilst concentrating acting in an inebriated state.

[@AugmentedActor]

That sounds like an awesome version of the show. Hope this video helps you tackle the new interpretation. Best thing is to get the drunk part down pat and then layer the lines in on top.That way you can learn the lines as drunk versions.

[@reallynot.]

Thanks. I need this for a drama project.

[@AugmentedActor]

Best of luck on the project!

[@PufftasticJames4]

I like to do something like how Seth MacFarlane does when he acts drunk, he tends to studder a bit, and how a couple actresses I worked with that call for an intoxicated character, I like to burp, hiccup, and laugh and talk at the same time.

[@AugmentedActor]

All great ideas for adding color and nuance to a drunken performance. Thanks for sharing.

[@lenaaa06]

This helps so much!! I'm in high school and im doing a scene in my advanced acting class and I have to play a mother who is a drunk. And I've never been drunk before so this gives me an idea and want to think about.

[@AugmentedActor]

It's hard to know how to play something you haven't yet experienced. So I'm glad the video helps a little.

[@atheswagmaster2788]

Thank you for this! My highschool is doing the tempest this year and I just got cast as Caliban! Obviously being in highschool I can’t drink so this helps!

[@AugmentedActor]

Congrats on the role. I’m glad the video helps.

[@merlinthewarlock5533]

Hey, thanks for the video! I have my theatre class in 4 hours and todays subject is playing drunk in a mono short play.

[@AugmentedActor]

Glad to help. Hope the class went well!

[@merlinthewarlock5533]

@@AugmentedActor it went great thanks to you! The only thing was some folks couldn't hear me from back seats

[@AugmentedActor]

@@merlinthewarlock5533 Ah, well projection is another subject altogether. :) Glad it went well otherwise!

[@Rhynarok_]

This helped

[@AugmentedActor]

Oh good! Don’t get too drunk. :-)

[@aayraaccharya1894]

Thank you

[@AugmentedActor]

You’re welcome

[@majidkhodabakhshi66]

thanks, its helpfull, i hope i can do it...

[@AugmentedActor]

I’m sure you can!

[@AMadder]

Im playing the porter in macbeth 🗣🗣

[@AugmentedActor]

Nice role! Enjoy. Also see my other video about Macbeth.

[@helenuh485]

why do you look like jimmy kimmel?😂

[@AugmentedActor]

I think you mean to ask, “why does Jimmy Kimmel look like me”?

[@akitatrips]

I put a non-alcoholic drink in a wine glass, took a picture of it and send it to a few guys(and of course drink it) and im waiting for their responses. One of those guys is my best friends and i just want to prank him really hard.

[@AugmentedActor]

Sounds like a fun prank.

[@akitatrips]

@@AugmentedActor I did it. My best friend told me to stop after drinking 4 glasses in front of him and then I showed him what actually happened lmfao. In the meantime we made a discord server together to voice chat and it's been amazing texting with him and my friend haha

[@AugmentedActor]

That’s great!

[@anakinskywalker213]

So gonna play a play called 3 nights with madox where i play groby He gets drunk throughout the play I just need to find how to talk or speak drunk cus we are doing some kinv of a sitting_play Its where we sit and read the script with those emotions and mimics Its quite popular in iran right now Thanks for the guidance Just found this channel and already its my favorite :D

[@AugmentedActor]

Glad the video helped you. And I'm also happy you discovered the channel!!

[@anakinskywalker213]

@@AugmentedActor it's a nice channel I go to classes and it's pretty much the same Appreciate the huge help you do all for free You are an Angel

[@noweebatall5520]

Anyone else playing the Teacher in Andorra

[@AugmentedActor]

I'm not familiar with that role/show, but I assume the teacher is drunk in the show?

[@christianfinlayson9127]

No listen... listen to me... ur not listening, drunken sloaps r hard to ride as an amateur, but all I get is confidence, and always want to pick the song, but I never went out to get wasted, where euphoria says k let's go home... u can sleep r stay and wake up to strangers waving at you in the am and others avoiding u... lol

[@AugmentedActor]

Exactly!

[@christianfinlayson9127]

@@AugmentedActor im actually surprised I made so many words fit the part, only because I believe in method acting, but when I wrote this im pretty sure I was playing my smart drunk uncle lol

[@AugmentedActor]

@@christianfinlayson9127 Smart drunk uncles are such great inspiration, aren't they?

[@Stitchxsnowflake]

Thanks am supposed to do an acting in a movie and am the drunk one.....

[@AugmentedActor]

Oh fun! Have a great time on set.

[@gamingmoments5886]

Average teen at a party:

[@AugmentedActor]

Yup

[@ThJiban]

you look like youre drunk when you are speaking😁😆

[@AugmentedActor]

Maybe I am.

[@drake_o_kid9490]

My friend been soda drunk -_-

[@AugmentedActor]

Haha

[@drake_o_kid9490]

She got so much she started twerking, & bet she was super hyper

[@AugmentedActor]

@@drake_o_kid9490 That's hilarious.

[@thefoxcreation3580]

Easy. I'm from the balkans. Just get drunk

[@AugmentedActor]

That works too.

[@christianfinlayson9127]

Ok u lost me at vertigo? Isn't that diarrhea

[@AugmentedActor]

Ha. No. It’s when you’re head spins. Or rather the room suddenly spins.

[@christianfinlayson9127]

It was an act... I was referring to a movie joke lol

[@AugmentedActor]

@@christianfinlayson9127 Ah, context. Which movie was it?

[@christianfinlayson9127]

Only hint is Britney Murphy, and to be honest, im an alcoholic but I know what not to do in that state, but seriously if I what did the government say

[@AugmentedActor]

Now I’m even more puzzled. 🤪🤪

[@PinkCatKay]

Nah

[@AugmentedActor]

K

[@Najstefaniji]

yeah, you dont need to have a class about something youre not good at.

[@AugmentedActor]

Do you know I’m not good at being drunk?

[@C0chinita_pibil008]

Jimmy kimmel??!!

[@AugmentedActor]

Nope, guess again. :-)

[@C0chinita_pibil008]

Oh wait..i also forgot to thank you for this helpful video(but you still look like jimmy kimmel) :)

[@AugmentedActor]

Well thanks. If I have to looks like anyone, Jimmy Kimmel is a pretty good choice. :-)