#Stage and Film Actor

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#OTD in 1896 – Birth of stage and film actor, Arthur Shields (younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald), in Portobello, Co Dublin.

While Sean Connolly claimed the unfortunate title of being the first rebel fatality, others were luckier and escaped from Easter Week, 1916 with their lives. For Arthur Shields, his role in the Rising was to become merely an interesting titbit in what was a fascinating career as an actor at home and in the US. Arthur was born into a poor family in Portobello, Dublin in 1896. As one of eight…

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Monty Earned His Acting Stripes.

Montgomery Clift photographed in the late 1940s or early 1950s, Monty was a great actor, a troubled soul and a handsome chap.

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RIP Clive Revill (18.4.1930 - 11.3.2025)

"It was quite an experience, and I had my doubts at one point when I thought, 'I can't do it. I can't do this. I can't find it within myself.' I had a marvelous talk with a woman who was, well, she was in charge of movement in school and she took me aside and said, 'You've got to go back to within yourself and find the truth within yourself, and if you can find that truth, never, never, never lose it because it's more than a ring on a finger. It's the absolute, innermost line within your life and your spirit.'"

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Tobias Menzies in "The Fever" for the Almeida, directed by Robert Icke, 2015.

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This is what being down bad does to a man I do another Hans Gruber drawing but meticulously paint the scene redraw

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Actors are the worst part of theatre

I say this as a performer. I've done so much. I love writing, directing, acting, singing, dancing, drag, costuming, makeup, hair, set design, prop making. I don't have experience in stage management, light or sound tech, but i respect them deeply.

Then there's actors. I mean actors who have never done anything else. Actors who think we are all there to serve them. Not there for the show, there for them specifically. I probably would've gone into doing costume professionally, if it werent for the fact i was treated like dirt. Not by all of them. But just the worst ones. The rest of them just kinda forgot i existed. i wasnt important.

I love directing, i'm good at leadership, i love team building and having fun as a group and making scenes together and building one everyones ideas and trying things out. i like scheduling. An availability spreadsheet is a problem to be solved. finding the solution where the most people are available for the most necessary rehearsals. but then they complain. I cant do this rehearsal. Thats fine. Thats why we have catch ups. Theres too many, theres not enough. Why are we wasting time with games, i didnt have fun cause we didnt play games. No pleasing everyone, i always knew that, then i was the bad guy because i didnt please everyone.

I like writing, i dont have to deal with the actors. In fact i delight in coming up with scenes that feel impossible to stage. "The moon turns into a man" do that actor. Suffer.

When i'm Queen of the universe, all actors will be required to do at least one full scale show in crew. All the actors who are patient during tech and nice to the crew, are involved in some aspect of crew themselves.

There's not a deeper meaning here i'm just complaining. anyway i love theatre and the people i work with and its fine

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Reel Men Wednesday 🎬 Leslie Howard ❤️

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I just woke up from a super weird dream. Dropping it here before going back to sleep:

In the dream, my best friend called me and told me "dude there's this super strange short horror film on YouTube that just came out, you gotta see this. So I go on YouTube and look it up, and it had the perfect casting (like it was just missing Catherine Tate and Alex Kingston honestly) (I'll reveal the cast as the story unfolds): the short film starts with Christopher Eccleston as a middle-aged tired man in a hotel room. He's watching TV or something when suddenly, there's a sound from the bathroom, like a distant music played by an orchestra (like a band of Mariachi I think). So he gets up to go to check it out and the scene stops there. Then, in the next scene, we can see Olivia Colman who plays Christopher Eccleston's wife. She's in the same hotel room as her husband and seems kind of worried because she hasn't heard from him in a while. She starts hearing the Mariachi Band in the bathroom but she doesn't check it out (very sensible of her if I may). Instead she calls her good friend, played by David Tennant, with whom she has a sexual relationship (like I think she was in an open relationship with her husband or something) and David Tennant's character arrives and they have sex (brain kept it pg). Then, they hear the Mariachi Band again. Next scene, a character played by Michael Sheen arrives in the room with them. I don't remember exactly who he played, either their friend or David Tennant's husband, but he's there with them and they tell him about the music. And it starts again, the music in the bathroom. So David's character gets up to see, with, right behind him, Michael Sheen's and behind him Olivia Colman's. David almost reaches the bathroom when Michael's eyes turn fully white and his head falls to the side, like he's possessed. But it is shot at an angle where you see all the characters faces, but David has his back to Michael, and Michael has his back to Olivia, so no one except for the people watching the film knows what's going on with Michael. David keeps approaching the bathroom, the music continues, and boom, I put on pause. Cause I'm scared. I'm still on the phone with my best friend and I ask if she's still there. The call hasn't ended... But she's gone.

Aaaand then I woke up dehydrated and needing to pee and it took me ten minutes to gather the courage to get up :) part of me wishes I could have seen the end of the dream, seen what happens next, but then I'm also thinking how hard it would have been to get up to pee if I had lmao cause wtf was up with that bathroom

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David Tennant - Dr Who. 🍃️🌺️🍃️

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What Writers Often Forget When Writing Scenes - Matthew Kalil and Angelique Pretorius

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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

"Lola, dear, you know, there are really only two things I dislike about you."

"Really? What are they?"

"Your face."

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In the movie of The Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man has always been my favorite of Dorothy's three Oz friends, although the Scarecrow is a close second. (I like the Cowardly Lion too, but his hamminess borders on the edge of annoying.)

But each time I've seen a stage production of The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow has been my favorite instead. In the production I just recently saw, the Tin Man's actor was too loud, and in the production before that, he was too snarky.

In the movie, Jack Haley is perfectly cast with his sweet, gentle voice and demeanor. He comes across as a truly poetic soul, whose longing for a heart so he can be "tender, gentle, and awful sentimental" makes perfect sense. Yet he has his fair share of humor too, albeit a subtler humor then Ray Bolger's slapstick or Bert Lahr's scenery chewing, and his few lightly snarky lines (e.g. "Well, that's you all over," "I hope your tail holds out!") don't detract a bit from his "heart."

Maybe part of the problem is the difference between film acting and stage acting: a stage actor needs to be bigger and louder. But I wonder if it's become harder than it was in the '30s to accept a sincerely tender, sensitive male character in family media, played with gentle humor but without a trace of caricature or irony. Besides the Tin Man, I'm also thinking of Bashful in Disney's Snow White, and how his sweet, endearing portrayal in the movie contrasts with his overly loud, hammy portrayal in the 1980 filmed stage production from Radio City Music Hall. (I'll be interested to see what the upcoming live action remake does with him.)

Maybe the style of humor we expect from family media has changed so much since the '30s that characters like Bashful or the Tin Man don't fit in anymore. Maybe there's too much of an urge to make the humor broader and less gentle, and to downplay sentimentality, even when it's the character's defining trait, either by undercutting it with snark or by hamming it up for laughs.

If this is the case, then it's unfortunate. I'll always prefer these two sweet characters as they were portrayed in the classic '30s films.

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Willem Dafoe in the Year 2024