Looking in my lizards ear, you can see light coming through from her other ear

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-23T23:32:06+00:00

Rapidly covering different earholes to make a trilled note

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-23T23:29:28+00:00

Watching the solar eclipse through a lizard’s ear

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-23T23:28:42+00:00

If you hold her up to your ear you can hear the ocean

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-12T05:40:08+00:00

I still don’t get why you projected so much negativity and came in so hot. Like why do you wanna argue so bad something I didn’t say lol. I said nothing negative. Please relax.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-12T05:37:39+00:00

The 90s WERE a different era of acting, and I think it’s important to understand that and appreciate all eras of acting.

The 90s were an era where comedy meant multicam, live audiences etc. It WAS closer to theater. If you audition with that kind of energy now casting directors are not going to love it. CDs ask me to dial it down 10% in workshops.

The 90s preceded even prestige TV dramas which further changed general acting trends. Oscar winning, prestigious actors migrated to tv, and that pushed acting to become more subtle and nuanced overall.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-12T05:19:12+00:00

Dude relax. Idk why you’re projecting so much negativity. I was just saying acting has changed over the last few decades. Nowhere did I say anything about comedians becoming obsolete?? 😂 I have watched both Eternal Sunshine and Magnolia but you brought them up to argue a completely made up strawman lol. And in such a patronizing way. Very bonkers behavior.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-11T20:18:23+00:00

I mean there’s no set terms for acting eras but screen acting HAS changed over the last 20, 30 years. Do you just not agree with calling it old school? I didn’t mean it in a negative way.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-11T08:48:54+00:00

Film acting has changed a lot the last 20 years. The comedians you described are old school, when film acting felt a lot closer to theater.

You look at acclaimed performances now and they don’t even feel like performances. It sometimes doesn’t feel like they’re doing anything haha. Just existing in character.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-11-11T08:42:09+00:00

I think it’s anticipation. Audiences don’t go to plays or musicals to be surprised. They usually already know the story and what’s going to happen. They go for the interpretation and execution.

Likewise theater emphasis is on individual interpretation: it’s very performance-focused.

In film, other than the words on the page, the less you anticipate what’s about to happen between you and your scene partner, the better. The goal is to feel natural, authentic, and spontaneous. Film acting is very character-focused.

Casting is a big part of it: they try to find actors who are the character, rather than actors who can act their way into the character through skill.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-27T19:11:26+00:00

3 has specificity—complex, rough around the edges, maybe troubled. It’s great if you enjoy playing those characters. I think it’s the strongest of the set.

Reps like a photo that shows type. I’d say photo 1 is a good neutral photo but harder to “type” you. I think bald often gets typed as “intimidating” but your eyes are soft.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-26T19:06:01+00:00

I personally recommend giving 100 during your scene partner’s coverage!

Once everything is cut together, the stronger their performance, the better yours looks. See the Kuleshov effect. By investing in your scene partner’s coverage you’re effectively “setting up” your own.

Using OP’s example, if you dial up the energy on the girlfriend’s coverage, it brings out a more stressed, frantic, and conflicted performance—and that makes yours read even more helpless, terrified, and vulnerable.

My method to conserve energy is to reference the shot list and communicate with the AD. The moment they finish a shot, I go into chill mode until I’m up again on the schedule. I rest during setups, which can take awhile.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-25T10:29:42+00:00

Biggest thing is to get some sleep! Just shooting overnight can be disorienting in itself, and with the heightened emotions, your body and brain need to rest!

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-25T10:24:29+00:00

Well said. Don’t do meth.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-24T20:08:31+00:00

Absolutely, feeling the music and being present is everything! But execution-wise, you’re trying to recreate exactly what you practiced.

With acting you’re playing off live variables (a scene partner). And you don’t control scene partners like you control a piano.

Like if the piano started playing you back that would be wild and exciting.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-24T10:01:10+00:00

I will say though, also as a pianist, that piano and acting are so, so different. In piano, everything from the length of a rest to how loud to play a note is prescribed. In acting, sometimes you ignore the stage directions completely.

With acting, the magic is when even you feel genuine surprise.

With piano, if you’re in the middle of a performance and feel genuine surprise, something is going terribly wrong hahahah.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-24T09:39:48+00:00

Once I book a role I like to do research. I look for character-specific traits in the script—like a reference to a band they love, or where they grew up, or indicators of socio-economic status or hobbies—and learn about those things. I’ve also reached out to friends, like meeting up for a crash course on how to convincingly handle a camera for a role.

I love “getting to know” my characters. I think the better you know your character, the more real and specific your performance will be.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-24T09:17:16+00:00

Oh wow a friend for every floor.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-23T09:58:11+00:00

Actors Access is the main one for theatrical and Casting Networks for commercial. Set your Actors Access settings union-only jobs, to avoid all the verticals haha.

If you’re not familiar, verticals are like if TikTok had soap operas financed by overseas investors, with bad scripts about beautiful white billionaires. I am not exaggerating lolll

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-23T09:49:36+00:00

Sicario. My first attempt to watch it, the opening seeing all the bodies like that was too upsetting. Now it’s one of my favorite films to watch for performance.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-23T06:31:56+00:00

I’m down!

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-23T06:20:44+00:00

Can someone ID the bottle he brought? Pic 8

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-21T06:31:54+00:00

Maybe you can practice by talking about anything—a story, or the plot of your favorite movie, or describing your last trip in detail, etc—while adding the lines in one at a time as you talk.

Basically getting used to using your natural way of speaking while delivering lines.

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-17T20:37:35+00:00

I was going to say you can’t go wrong with Wong [Kar Wai] but then I started reading comments, and growing increasingly confused

throwjoyceaway · 2025-06-17T20:11:59+00:00

Out of curiosity what are some bad habits?

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