Method Acting (Franklin U 2, #7)

Method Acting (Franklin U 2, #7)

Author: N.R. Walker Listening Length: 6h 42m

Chase Soria Every budding actor knows acting is a difficult gig. There will be grueling auditions and punishing rejections. If you’re lucky, there’ll be roles that pay the bills and even roles that won’t. Roles we don’t believe in. But that’s what acting is—acting as if we do believe in them. So when the semester...

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The eight of us sat at the round table reading the very brief script outline. The thing with reality TV was that, yes, while it was technically scripted, a lot of it wasn’t. This was an exercise in method acting, after all. We were to become the character. We were to behave, to act, to be in our everyday lives as the character would be.

Which was ourselves, but not entirely.

We had character names, but these characters were to be us. They would go to our classes, hang out with our friends. For as long as there was a camera on me, I was Elijah. Elijah James, whose boyfriend of twelve months was Dominic Davis.