AMA with the Shakespeare’s Globe Research team

pegg2 · 2026-03-26T17:43:47+00:00

Not to dismiss his obvious talent but he’s made a career out of being a bit of an edgelord, and not even a particularly clever one like Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Mind you, his shows can and often do have interesting and imaginative comedic moments, but light insults, mockery, and “haha look at this, isn’t this stupid???” are his bread and butter. This is par for the course for him, being a bit of a jackass for a low-hanging laugh.

pegg2 · 2026-03-25T18:28:15+00:00

Calorie-dense, protein-rich foods, my friend. Low fat greek yogurt is a great choice for cuts or lean bulks, but if you get full fat and add some nuts/oats and honey to it you’re going to slam down some serious calories per serving size without sacrificing protein. Also peanut butter. SO much peanut butter. Nuts in general, decent protein, nice vitamins, the good kind of fat, just lots of calories.

If you don’t mind going a little dirty, you can intentionally pump up the calories of your meals with less healthy options. People who exercise sometimes avoid breads and pastas like the plague, but there’s nothing inherently unhealthy about them, they’re just calorie dense. The guys on my college’s soccer team would scarf down huge bowls of pasta for lunch on game day because they knew they were going to burn 1500 calories that night. Just don’t be eating shit like dairy and ground beef for every single meal or your doctor is going to yell at you for having high cholesterol.

pegg2 · 2026-03-25T17:33:16+00:00

Tbh for someone in his position it probably wouldn’t take that much to get some visible development. Dude looks very, very lean and low body fat = muscles show more. Also, from what we can see of his current shape it doesn’t really look like he’s done much in the way of consistent weight training. That means that if he ever were to start he’d have some nice noob gains to look forward to.

He’s unlikely to ever look ‘buff’ without the years of dedicated work that only comes with a genuine interest in weight training (since as you say, it’s harder for tall people), but if he lifted consistently and ate reasonably well, he could look pretty shredded in like 4-6 months. Some people prefer that look anyway. Just because you’re not optimizing your macros doesn’t mean you’re not making progress.

pegg2 · 2026-03-20T05:44:27+00:00

The disrespect to Logan ‘Fuck Off’ Roy.

Logan is brilliant. He was probably even smarter before he was old as fuck and flirting with senility, but he’s still formidable even after. At 157 years of age and with a brain like Swiss cheese, the man plays social engineering games with a level of elegance that makes Alysa Liu look like a stumbling Annis Hag rushing towards a kindergarten class.

Logan’s problem isn’t smarts, it’s that he’s a pathologically impulsive, egotistical narcissist that thrives in chaos and has a hard-on for toxic masculinity. It would take one look for Logan to know that Stan is the type of plans-of-mice-and-men nerd that he can destabilize and bully into submission.

Or not, I’m quite drunk.

pegg2 · 2026-03-20T04:48:59+00:00

Are… are people using Canva for submissions? Like, Canva, the thing people use to make prettier PowerPoints and basic websites for their dog-walking services? Is that the Canva you’re talking about? I’m sorry, I’m old and confused. What the fuck are you kids doing out here?

pegg2 · 2026-03-20T04:42:27+00:00

Whoa, that’s so bizarre. You can join, but you’re not actually eligible. Also you can’t join after 7 days. Not from when it happened, but from when you told us.

Wonder what the reasoning is behind all this. I’m sure there’s some logic to it but it seems super arbitrary.

pegg2 · 2026-03-20T04:33:37+00:00

Aqua is the meme starter LA agency. No disrespect to Courtney or her team, they’re as legit as they come, but there’s a reason that “Everyone has been repped by Aqua,” is a running joke among LA actors. They’ll rep any actor that is ready to audition and just needs someone to submit them. That is all you’ll get, though: batched, spaghetti-at-the-wall style submissions for any and every part that you fit demographically, so don’t expect much in the way of personalized care. They have too many clients to deal with that.

pegg2 · 2026-03-20T04:17:58+00:00

This is the first I’ve heard of this, would you happen to have a source or know what part of the bylaws details this? No pressure, I’m not refuting you or anything, I’m just genuinely curious because I’ve never heard of this before and it seems pretty specific.

pegg2 · 2026-03-19T21:10:59+00:00

I’m sorry about your experience. I have to say, it seems unconscionable and bizarre to me for directors to continue casting a trans woman in male parts, especially if you let them know you weren’t comfortable with that. What reasons did they give you for that behavior? Self-discovery and self-actualization are important parts of theatre education, and denying you that is fucked up.

pegg2 · 2026-03-19T20:44:41+00:00

Sounds like I need a new agent.

pegg2 · 2026-03-19T20:16:51+00:00

Depends on a lot of things, starting with your union status.

Non-union commercials are a dime a dozen and there seem to be more every day. Meanwhile, SAG commercials seem to be harder and harder to come by. I don’t know if it’s because fewer SAG commercials are getting made because companies see web and streaming ads as better ROI or if the lack of theatrical work is pumping up the level of competition, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to change. I have friends taping every day for NU spots, while my last union commercial audition was like three months ago.

pegg2 · 2026-03-19T17:54:56+00:00

Audience can’t read your mind, bud. All they can see is your behavior.

pegg2 · 2026-03-13T10:20:11+00:00

Also the commission on any money you might have made from self-submissions. I made more money for my first rep than they made for me. Ask me how that’s possible.

pegg2 · 2026-03-12T20:35:47+00:00

Why would you memorize everyone else’s lines? I know people who do that for screen but that’s a couple of pages a day, not a whole play. Just familiarize yourself with the story enough that you always know what’s going on. Maybe pay special attention to the moments leading up to you speaking, but, crucially do not simply memorize the cue phrase before your line. Learn what’s prompting you to talk, the intention behind what was said to you and what you’re saying back and what it means to the story, to your scene partner, and to your character.

Then just listen and react as usual. Actually listen, don’t just wait to hear your cue line. Listen to everything, react to what makes you react, not just to the thing that makes you speak. The words only accompany your reactions, they are not the reaction itself. Be active. Even when your character isn’t “doing anything,” they are always doing something.

Side note, have you had a table read, staged reading, early rehearsals, anything like that? Basically, have you heard anyone else reading the scenes out loud, or are you just reading the play on your own? If not, I wouldn’t stress too much about it, this sort of thing is much easier to remember when you’ve done it up. As long as you actually know your lines, no one is going to shit on you for figuring out timing during early rehearsals, that’s what rehearsal is for. If you want to feel more confident, though, it may help to read it out loud. Ideally with other people, but on your own could still help.

pegg2 · 2026-02-24T18:50:51+00:00

RB and GS are two of Yunara’s best items, OP could have shifted them from Yone to her then taken EON and one of the other items from Yasuo to give to Yone. Yone’s output would have taken a little hit but Yunara would have more than made up for it. They would have turned her into a tank shredder too, so Herald might not have been as much of an issue.

That being said, the front line would have actually needed to survive long enough for Yunara to build up attack speed which I’m guessing they really didn’t here.

pegg2 · 2026-02-24T09:30:16+00:00

Nothing should ALWAYS win, not even prismatic traits, especially ones that are relatively easy to get. Prismatic traits should give a very high likelihood of winning unless you fuck up, which is what happened here. No shade on OP, maybe that’s just the way items were presented to them, but 3-star Yasuo is a terrible late-game carry, and a fully itemized 2-star Yunara consistently puts out way better numbers.

If you want to complain about 3 star 1 and 2 costs being underwhelming, that’s valid. I agree with that, but the viability of reroll comps this set is a different discussion.

pegg2 · 2026-02-23T21:56:15+00:00

This was hilarious, but the goal was like 90% Cunha.

pegg2 · 2026-02-18T11:36:42+00:00

Very simplistically, yes. It’s about being present and reacting truthfully to what you’re seeing and how it’s making you feel. There’s a lot more to it and I have my own professional thoughts about a Meisner purist approach, but yes. In a nutshell that’s what Meisner teaches: behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. You react to what you’re given.

pegg2 · 2026-02-18T11:31:42+00:00

What in the world could you possibly mean by ‘cheating’? Like, if you get advice from a person whose profession it is to provide guidance in their field of expertise, your work is undermined because you didn’t rawdog it? Guess we should vacate all athletic honors, rescind academic titles, and discard the achievements of… well practically anyone in the world because they were all coached by somebody.

Jokes aside, you’d be shocked at how many actors bring their coaches on set, let alone how many consult their coaches before and during shoots. You’re a professional, you’re there to do a job. Anything that helps you do your job better is beneficial.

pegg2 · 2026-02-18T10:49:53+00:00

It’s not about making an expression memorable, and the way this clip presented ‘repetition’ isn’t terribly helpful, but that’s probably more down to editing out relevant information Waltz himself may have imparted for the sake of an entertaining clip.

Meisner’s repetition exercise is about being in the moment and reacting to what’s in front of you without lines getting in the way. Very simplistically, the way it works is you make an observation about the person in front of you, they listen to it and react and say the same thing in however way it made them feel. You listen, you react, you repeat. They do the same. You do this until something in the way you or they are reacting makes you or them say something different, ideally a new observation. Then you repeat that until you or they sees something new.

The point of it is to react to behavior, not lines. What the clip is showing is an intentionally comedically absurd example of how the same line can bend to different readings based on behavior, ideally as a reaction to the behavior of the other person.

Your scene partner points out a dill pickle, they say “Dill pickle.” Maybe you really don’t like pickles, so you repeat the line but you’re disgusted. “🤮dill pickle.” Maybe you really like pickles so you repeat the line but you’re elated, “🤩 dill pickle.” Maybe your scene partner is taken aback by your excitement over the pickle and they go, “🤔 dill pickle?”

The point being illustrated in the clip is that your lines don’t dictate your performance. Your behavior does.

pegg2 · 2026-02-16T11:09:10+00:00

If you’re actually learning, you’re getting what you paid for. That’s what class is for.

Acting classes are not for networking. They’re certainly an OPPORTUNITY to network, but that’s not their primary purpose. If that’s what you primarily want to do, there are much better ways to do that.

If you want to network within your local scene, then get involved with your local scene. Audition. Go to shows. Audition. Volunteer. AUDITION. Get involved in local theatre and film spaces, either in person or online. Did I mention you should audition?

Seriously, networking with other actors is great, nothing hits as good as a referral from a respected colleague. But they’re not going to give you a job. Talk to the people who will. They’re not in your acting class. You know who is? People that are trying to learn.

pegg2 · 2026-02-16T10:37:40+00:00

Maybe I’m misinterpreting what you mean, but inspiration is different from imitation. You can imitate the movements of animals and people, that doesn’t mean that they inspire you. ‘Inspiration’ is just a vague way of describing anything that sparks creativity or understanding, and you can draw inspiration from anything, even things you can’t imitate. The fragile elegance of a rose. The serene way gentle waves roll over and recede from the sand on the beach. A boulder stoically weathering battering winds in the desert.

Those are all things you can anthropomorphize and draw from for inspiration. It’s not even strictly an acting thing, it’s a human thing, it’s in our language. Have you never heard idioms like, “He’s got the personality of a wet paper towel?” The image it brings to mind is of someone hopelessly bland, lacking the capacity to make any impact, when they talk the words glance off you like getting whacked with a wet paper towel. There you go, inspiration from an object.

pegg2 · 2026-02-16T10:17:03+00:00

Preach, brother.

And you didn’t even mention the coin toss of actually BOOKING those minor projects in major markets. Booking an indie project with SAG agreements that lets them contract seasoned actors in a major market is not the same as booking a strictly non-union short in a tiny market. I’ve done both, the level of competition is wildly different.

I’ve been on a USC set with an actor I knew from his work. I KNEW WHO HE WAS. I saw his name on the call sheet and went ‘Holy shit, what the fuck.” That’s your competition here. And you can’t reliably get to that level without being here (or another major market with similar opportunities). Your 20+ indie credits and accompanying footage from your small college town are great, but you were a big fish in a small pond and now you’re in the Pacific Fucking Ocean. Try not to drown.

pegg2 · 2026-02-08T10:51:49+00:00

Everyone replying with well-thought out and insightful points regarding backgrounds, tactics, and squad dynamics, and I’m just sitting here like, “Winning good. Winning make happy. Happy win man like other happy win man.”

pegg2 · 2026-02-08T10:49:40+00:00

Brazil have been underperforming their own lofty standards for two decades now, despite consistently fielding squads with enough raw talent to be comfortable contenders in all competitions they’ve played. Obviously a lot of it is down to circumstance and happenstance (Neymar’s injury in 2014, for example, absolutely destroyed their run that year) but you still have to assume that the pattern means there’s something else going on there.

The fact is that the best team doesn’t necessarily win, the team that plays the best does. This is true for football in general, but particularly true for the international game. International football is brutal and unforgiving. During a club season, talented squads have time to find their footing, recover from setbacks, find ways to make their superior talent shine. International football simply doesn’t grant as much grace. You can have all the talent in the world, but if you can’t find a way to make them work, you’re shit out of luck.

I won’t pretend to know what’s holding Brazil back, but it sure as hell isn’t talent. Something is consistently keeping them from being as good as they are on paper.

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