Acting From All Angles

Emotional Blocks

Do you ever feel totally shut down and unable to access your emotions when you’re acting? For a lot of actors that can be a big problem. Sometimes we are in the habit of disassociating from our feelings in life and that can boil over to our acting work. Sometimes we just get blocked from a particular feeling we need to delve into. Sometimes we’re just having a bad day, or week, or month and we feel as dry as the Sahara Desert emotionally.

So what do we do? Steven Spielberg ain’t gonna wait for our emotional tide to turn. 

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Don’t Want to Look Like an Amateur?

Do you hold yourself back with your acting career because you’re afraid of being wrong or that you’ll make yourself look like an amateur?

That’s a common condition for a lot of actors, in my experience. Even ones who are “established”. But why do we do that? Hold back and don’t try to get an agent or better agent? Stay stuck in our 9 to 5 getting more hopeless by the day? Go weeks or even months without letting those wild horses of our acting drive out to tear up the fields?

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