Acting tips 101 with your guest host Joan Rivers.
'Just as a carpenter has a hammer and saw, the actor has their tools, and that is their body and voice. I cannot stress the VITAL importance of proper physical and vocal warm ups. If the tool fails the actor, usually that means the actor is out of work! Begin any theater session with at least twenty minutes of warm ups, thirty is recommended. Here's one you can try right now.
'Squinch" the face together, like a sour face, and hold. Then "open" the face, open the eyes and mouth as wide as they can go. Repeat three or four times. Next, place the tongue tip on the inside of one cheek and make thirty to forty circles with the tongue. Move to the other side and repeat, then lastly, circle the tongue around the front of the mouth. Like so:'
'One of the best definitions of acting is this: "Believable behavior under imaginary circumstances." Obviously, the best way to obtain that is to have a fully developed character. A character who comes from the actor, whom the actors knows inside an out. An actor strives for (theater buzz word here) verisimilitude. A big word with a simple meaning- Verisimilitude: the quality of being lifelike. Sounds easy, but we know the truth! It takes a lot of work and talent. I will provide ways to help you begin to shape your character with practical observations from life and yourselves.
All you need do work on is a range of expressions, starting with the basics.
ANGER:
FEAR:
LUST:
HUNGER:
JOY:
'At this point, I just want everyone sit where they are and talk about the experience. Some guidance questions to ask: How real did you feel? Could you feel the emotions 'pass' in front of your face? Could you feel someone next to you? Like I said, this is a very intense game. When I played it, it was so real it was eerie, but I guarantee your group will be closer after having played, and the level to which the imagination is taken will reap benefits as your group continues to grow.'
556 days til the next election.
p.s. COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY ALL THE NEWSPAPERS ARE MAKING CHEEKY QUIPS ABOUT JOAN RIVERS LOOKING 'ADMIRINGLY FRESH-FACED' AND 'SURPRISINGLY WRINKLE-FREE FOR A 72 YEAR-OLD' INSTEAD OF POINTING OUT THAT SHE HAS A VISAGE LIKE A HALF-SUCKED TWISTIE THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE.
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In last night's 'Rove' Rivers looked disturbingly like a Thunderbird; Lady Penelope to be specific. Bizarre porcelain face with only the lips and eyelashes. Looks like she has been injected with concrete mixed with botox, and a lot of it.
I meant 'with only the lips and eyelashes *moving*' Damn.
Oh! Is that her face? I thought it was a pink mask.
All those millions spent on surgery and she still looks like a stroke victim.
No disrespect to stroke victims intended.
I get it! Actors get that verisimiltude thing by changing their make-up and hair-do.
*throws out application for NIDA*
Let me think, do lessons on acting and get edumacated or keep doing what i am and still getting tv and film work. LMAO I'll just stay stupid. Thankfully I don't watch Rove and missed the joy of seeing the corpse reanimation experiment that is Joan Rivers.
Oh. I thought she was promoting V for Vendetta. Isn't that Hugo Weaving underneath?
According to the Age review of her show her own support act say she looks like a siamese cat in a wind tunnel, so I guess she can take it. Why the hell be polite to Joan Rivers of all people?
I assume they just pull the skin back and stitch it in place. Under her wig must look like row after row of saggy little scrotums.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry, Cloudy. We all needed to share that visual.
Why? Because she's a fucking legend.
She's like a disturbing cross between Jocelyn Wildenstein and Katya from Neighbours.
christ.
Joan could get a job as the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard of Oz. At the end of the show the producers could put here near a heat gun for special effect.
"I'm melting, MELTING ARRRRRHHHHH"
I just want to know what that brown thing is on her face. Is it a spot of fake tan? Is her skin starting to crack and peel away to reveal some kind of Gila monster beneath
Row upon row of saggy little scrotums... has David Cronenberg been notified?
I was wondering the same thing, Rach. That brown splodge is disturbingly large.
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