Dare to be Brave

Final week, drum-roll please!

It was the crunch time, the roll-up, the calm before the storm and surprisingly I wasn't nervous, I was more like let’s do THIS, I’m itching! 

Jason and I did two run-throughs and we got slightly creative Eg throwing in a few extra lines and emphasising certain points, we emphasised to a T!

When we got into the studio, I kept thinking of ways to adjust and flow, essentially transitioning from one action into another, I quickly learned that that wasn’t the best way for me to act and I don’t think it will ever be…

The build up was killing me cause I wanted to give it a go early and get it out of the way but at the same time I was thinking, mulling over which way to attack the scene.

I famously over cooked myself in overthinking as the previous mentioned, realised this fast and promptly stuffed up my lines, or more to the point skipped ahead to my last line, which made it very difficult for the other Tom, a professional actor to adjust, we had to restart.

I did hold my composure, so I was happy about that.

The second go was good till I forgot my line towards the end, again my composure saved my ASS. I held in the moment and rethought my line from the depths of my inner brain and finished off the scene.

We gave it another go and we bloody nailed it, absolutely BLOODY nailed it!

I think the key takeaway message for me is to try and stay present with acting but also beyond acting. I think controlling the uncontrollable and worrying about things that is outside your powers is a thing that I do too much of in life.

Primed example paragraph two.

So what’s next? 

Well, there’s a little bit of a gap in classes and then I’ll be moving on to level two at Brave. In that gap time the actors and I in my class are going to catch up for a social BEV, should be grouse fun, might do a recap of the scene!

Stay tuned for round two.

TQ over and out!