I'm reminded of a recent Martin Freeman interview (he's in Black Panther)
where the talk show host (probably Conan) asked about the differences between
British and American actors, probably in the context of many British actors
getting roles as Americans. While acknowledging that there are certainly
empty-headed actors on both sides of the Atlantic, he credited Brits' relative
success to the more common theater training and experience in theater that
British actors have compared to their American cousins.
David
On Monday, March 5, 2018, 1:36:16 PM EST, Kevin M.
<drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote:
Charles Nelson Reilly was a dinner guest on the series “Dinner For Five” years
ago and his contention was the newer generation of “stars” weren’t as memorable
because so many lacked a theatrical background. I joked in an earlier thread
that Jennifer Lawrence is neither great nor awful but common. Many of these
child actors who become adult actors skip the step where they stand on a stage
and have to act and emote in such a way that a guy in the back row of a 2,500
seat theater feels it and connects with it. If the younger generation does live
theater, it is as a stepping stone to a film career or a TV series, justxas so
many young comics are only doing standup to get on a sitcom.
There are good young actors out there, but they aren’t the... well... common
ones.
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