TIPS ON ACTING | McConaughey Takes

you know with with scripts the the question that i get asked most often and i think most actors get asked most often is how do you remember all those lines i'm always like well you don't try to remember all the lines you look at what's on the text first you read it you try to understand it you read it again me i read it after run when my endorphins are flying i read it late saturday night when i've got a good buzz going i read it when i'm feeling um you know right after church when i'm feeling in a very forgiving mood i'll read it when i'm mad sad glad tired happy excited at many different places where i am personally i'll read a script and i'll have that means i'll have a different look at the same scenes because i'm in a different place and i gather all that for weeks if not months before i start really locking into making decisions on what my character would or wouldn't do on truths of my man as i call it and you have to watch in a script not to grab a hold of things that you want to take literally too early because you don't want to get bound to anything you want to stay loose well over and over through repetition you know the script you know what it's about it's not about knowing the lines what's the scene about what is what does the character want out of this scene what's the obstacle in front of this character to get what he wants what's the character need in the scene uh and then overall what's happening in the scene so if you do it over and over it's never about memorizing the lines it's understanding what the hell you're saying and what you mean and what you're trying to get and what you what you what you need why you're having trouble getting it how are you going to get past that obstacle to get what you need that you do that enough the lines on the day are like either kazan says they're fringe on the carpet i mean it's it's they're just words and uh you know that's a difference from writing and acting the actor brings a bloodline to the role it's as much about what we don't say is what we do if you if i can pull off a paragraph the meaning of a paragraph with one look go with a look not the words and so it's i always say it's not about memorizing the lines you don't think about memorizing lines at all um i write a lot i break down the scripts and scenes i'll have most of my scenes i'll have a version that's eight times longer than the scene because i've rewritten it so many times in so many ways i may not say anything that i rewrote but everything i wrote tells me more informs me more on what was on the page

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Length: 2min 50sec (170 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 25 2021