Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.
When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!
The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.