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I think it has to do with Black Beauty..... a favorite story for many little girls....
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When it comes to the craft of acting:
1) Not knowing their lines
2) Being stiff, affected, "wooden", or boring
3) Not being able to take direction
4) Being argumentative or defensive, "stuck in your ways" and unable to work if things aren't going exactly how you planned.
5) Giving other actors direction or line readings
When it comes to actors as people:
1) Being a power networker - someone who networks in all the wrong ways. They know everyone, have worked on everything, and the real point of their conversation is to tell you how great they are - they are just waiting for you to stop talking so that they can talk about themselves some more even if it has nothing to do with what you said.
2) Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance - feeling like you are entitled to something just because of who you are. That you are above helping out on a set just because you are an actor. That you are more important than the others around you who are working just as hard.
3) Being lazy - Just sitting around waiting for roles to come to them
4) Name droppers - Trying to fit in at any chance any tie they have to a famous/ name person or project. -
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When you're too sexy for your shirt - so sexy it hurts :)
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lol - I think it's a little odd. If someone found my formspring, then they probably would have also found my facebook and/or website, which I would think would be a preferred method of contact...
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haha - well, there's only one actor who has ever really left an impression smell-wise (in a good way). And that would be Brandon Luis Aponte.
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I don't have a house phone - is there another email address where I can send them?
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My phone is dead and my charger isn't working for some stupid reason and I don't have time to get a new one till like Mon. or Tues... I've responded to all her emails! I've sent her like 5 or 6 emails!
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Interesting that you chose "memorable" over "favorite" or something like that....
I've had lots of pets, all very memorable in their own way...
There was Toady - a tiny little toad I caught and used to have to go out and catch bugs for him every night to feed to him.
Yellow ring - the little black snake with yellow ring around his neck that I again caught and then brought to school for show and tell.
Tinkerbell - the rat I rescued from school when the seniors let a bunch loose in the cafeteria as a senior prank.
Snowball and Tiger - the guinea pigs who were supposedly both male... and then there were 4 of them.... then 10 of them....
Cookie - the siamese fighting fish who would follow my finger.
The ants that we caught and kept in jars and fed sugar water.
The tad poles we caught and watch morph into frogs.
The random turtles that we caught and fed fruit for a few days before letting them go.
Then there are the "normal" pets -
Mittens - our very first cat, got him from the neighbors the same year that I was born and he lived to to be 15 I think. He was the cat I grew up with.
Snowball - a silver chinchilla persian we were baby sitting for some friends who moved out of the country for a while - she was quite the princess and because she was de-clawed (found that way) my sister and I had great fun dressing her up in little doll costumes
Pumpkin and Pudding - the two kittens we got when Snowball's owners came back. Pumpkin was and forever will be my baby even though he now lives with my parents since he's old and needs medical care, so they can take better care of him than me.
Taffy - another stray kitten I found at work and brought home that still lives with my parents
Julie - our first dog, a golden retriever, who still lives with my parents.
Sawyer and Mr. Echo - the first cats I got as "an adult" living out on my own. They were found in the woods, covered in flees, and mites, and all sorts of nasty stuff. We took them in and cleaned them up and now they are two wonderful little terrors that own the apartment.
So a long answer to your question, but those are the most memorable ones :) -
There are so many different qualifications that go into making a "good director" - the way they handle actors, the way they run the production, their overall vision, their directing style... so many favors and there are directors that are better in some and worse in others, but overall, my favorite director to work with is Richard Griffin - probably why I've done 6 films with him :)
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Richard Griffin.
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That would either have to be Brandon Luis Aponte or Richard Griffin.
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Hmmm - nope. Had a few stress fractures in high school from doing too much soccer and pole vaulting, but never broke anything.
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Soccer referee! $20/hour - not a bad way to start!
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There's a lot of them... I'm personally a big fan of Angela Bettis and don't think that she gets nearly the work or recognition she deserves.
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That's a hard one. Directors, like actors come in all shapes and sizes... I think the worst thing that a director can do is not be prepared or know what they want. I hate being on a set where it feels like the director doesn't know what he's doing and is just blowing in the wind. The director is the captain of the ship - he should know it inside and out and know the best way to run it. It has to keep his cool when storms arise, and he also needs to be the set cheerleader when moral is low or energy is slacking.
However, I also think a director needs to be flexible and go with the flow. As my good friend, and one of the best directors I know says: when making a film the question is not whether the glass is half empty of half full, it's - does it have to be a glass?
A good director is open to the ideas of others, when they are brought up, but doesn't need to go looking for them since they already have a picture of what each shot should look like and won't let other people's ideas over power their overall vision. They also know when to tell everyone to shut the fuck up and get back to work rather than standing around and talking about it. He needs to know what can be compromised on and what cannot - how to correctly pick their battles and focus on what's important to the overall picture rather than obsessing over small details that the audience will not care about.
When it comes to dealing with actors, the worst thing I think a director can do is give line readings, unless the actor asks for it. Honestly - it's insulting. He needs to be able to draw the emotions he wants out of the actors by creating a safe environment for them to be in. For me, it's often helpful if they reference a common life event or even a scene from another movie, or a previous scene from the same movie to remind me of the emotional story for that scene if I'm not hitting it. I like when he will paint a picture that I can play in.
I think it's important for a director to remember who the audience is for their film. In general, most audience members are not filmmakers. They want to be entertained and see a good story and will not care how it was made. In my opinion, a good director makes the movie for the audience - not for themselves, their friends, their family or the others involved in the project - they make the film for the audience because they are who really matter. -
I'd certainly be interested in reading the script and finding out more about it! You have me very intrigued....send me an email and we can talk more about it!: sarah@sarahnicklin.com
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Indeed I am. I have so many wonderful things in my life - a great husband, good friends, family. There of course things I would change and improve, but so would everyone - and if I have nothing to work for or move towards, then what's the point?
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lol - umm.... the cracking of its shell?
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