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What is Personalizing?

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Welcome back to I Don't Need an Acting Class and our first episode of Season 8! In this first episode, we hear a coaching session between Milton and student Madior exploring the concept of "personalization" in acting.

The discussion centers around whether actors should draw from their own personal experiences or build relationships from the character's perspective. Using the example of a monologue where a character dismantles a house, Madior argues for using her own childhood home to tap into real emotional memories. However, Milton challenges this approach as potentially limiting, advocating instead for building relationships through imagination, which allows for endless creative expansion.

Milton warns against "effect-seeking" - trying to manufacture specific emotional responses rather than allowing feelings to emerge naturally through imaginative work. He emphasizes that while personal experiences remain part of an actor's toolkit, they should inform the work organically rather than being actively mined for emotional content.

Note: The Actor Lab, Milton's new acting school in New York City, begins classes September 15th.

theactorlab.nyc will be live next week.

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Welcome back to I Don't Need an Acting Class and our first episode of Season 8! In this first episode, we hear a coaching session between Milton and student Madior exploring the concept of "personalization" in acting.

The discussion centers around whether actors should draw from their own personal experiences or build relationships from the character's perspective. Using the example of a monologue where a character dismantles a house, Madior argues for using her own childhood home to tap into real emotional memories. However, Milton challenges this approach as potentially limiting, advocating instead for building relationships through imagination, which allows for endless creative expansion.

Milton warns against "effect-seeking" - trying to manufacture specific emotional responses rather than allowing feelings to emerge naturally through imaginative work. He emphasizes that while personal experiences remain part of an actor's toolkit, they should inform the work organically rather than being actively mined for emotional content.

Note: The Actor Lab, Milton's new acting school in New York City, begins classes September 15th.

theactorlab.nyc will be live next week.

  continue reading

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