10 Hour Acting Masterclass

1. 10 Hour Acting MASTERCLASS: are you? Where you wanna be today with your acting? Are you coming from a place that you're happy with? The work you put up? Do you like the progress that you're making? Albert Einstein said that his definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and over again, expecting a different result. Now, look, I know what it's like to walk on stage. I know what it's like to walk into the audition room. I know what it's like to be on set and to have to be scared to not know if the work you're gonna put up is gonna be any good toe Wonder and mice, they're gonna have a job tomorrow. I wasn't the best actor in the world, but I had something that no other single actor around me had. And that was a workout. And I was able to parlay my own work ethic forward to create better work and to move forward in my own career. And I did that by finding and building my own dream team of mentors. So I had mentors from the best drama schools around the world. I had mentors from Julia, Harvard, Yale, rata a c T. I also got mentors who never went to drama school but were phenomenal actors and my goal. And my job was to find what all the commonalities that they had and they shared. What were the secrets that they used in order to put up great work in order to be phenomenal, amazing, fantastic actors? What was it? And through my diligence of practicing and talking and actually sitting down with them, I was a bit of pot out and find what all their secrets were. What I want for all of you is to allow you to learn from the comfort of your own home and to allow you to work at your own personalized and designed pace. Just perfect for you. This has brought me to create the most affordable and comprehensive 10 hour acting course out there today. There's nothing else like it. I'll tell you this. If I can make a change, if I could get from Point A to Z, so can you. It was Robert Frost who said I took the road less traveled by, and that's what made all the difference. If I never decided to make a change, if I didn't decide to get the world class training that I did to build the dream team that I had. If I didn't get that, I wouldn't be where I am today. I wouldn't be able to sit here and talk to all of you. You want to know why people never make it and get to where they want to go because they get comfortable and complacent where they are at and they choose to stick with what is holding them back. They don't choose to make the conscious change for themselves to move forward. We have some of the best knowledge scattered throughout the world, and I made it my job to find it for acting. I wanted to find the secrets. What was what was it that made all these actors great. What did they have? What were they doing, what with the secrets that they were holding? And it turns out to be much simpler than we all think. Now we just have to see for ourselves. Are we brave enough to take that leap to move forward, to make a change in our career to turn everything around? We brave enough to take that only for our own personal Selves. I'm gonna leave you all with one last quote by Sean Patrick Flanery and he said, Do something today that your future self Well, thank you for 2. Introduction Video: everyone. Congratulations. You have all come. And now you're part of this video course. I wanted to make this because I wanted to put together everything that I wish I wouldn't knew When I was starting out. I want to put everything that I had all the hard work had to go through to get to where I am today. I wish that I have this in the beginning. I wish that I had the things that I know today. I wish that I knew the tricks. I wish that I knew the work that had to be done. I wish I knew the odds of the business when getting into it. There are a lot of aspects and elements that I would have loved to have learned. And I didn't didn't get to I had to go through the struggle. But hopefully, through this course, you won't have to go through that. So I wanted to put together a collection, a collection of videos over 10 hours long. You guys are gonna find Put it all through here So you guys can all learn. You guys can gain the knowledge that I wish I had and that you wish you would know in the next 10 years, cause in the next 10 years, if you happen to find some of this out, you're gonna look back and be like, Oh, my gosh, I wish I knew that. And some things that I'm gonna teach you here you may never learn. You may never have learned in the next 10 2030 years because maybe what's gonna happen is you're gonna be working wrong. Now, I'm gonna try and give a lot of different examples as we go through this course for different ideas and things. So, for example, I'm going to give the example of a basketball player. Your basketball player. You go out to the court every single day, every day and you have your basketball and for four hours straight, you have your ball and you throw it at the pool. You never throw it to the net, but you throw it at the pole. What's gonna happen? You're not gonna get any better. You're gonna be out there. It's gonna be hot, and you're gonna be upset and wondering why in the world and I never able to throw that ball into the basket and that's because you are practicing the wrong way. You're working wrong, and sometimes you need people to be there and guide you to help you. But sometimes the help that we get, we have an acting coach or an acting instructor and their there and they're watching. They're like, Yeah, you're you're throwing it at the poll, people keep throwing it at the pool. They're give you weird ideas. Others say, Hey, you know, instead of throwing it at the pool, just imagine you're going through the hoop and imagine that you are bird flying through the air. The wind is going through your hair and imagine that person that you really hate that you want to beat for the game. So you're a bird imagining that you really hate this person and you're gonna try and not throw it at the pole. There are a lot of actors, instructors who teach that way. I've had to go through many of them, many of them. I've had to go through the process of being very bad at acting, getting worse at acting because of those kind of instructions, and then having to work my way up. You know, one of the great things, I think is because I got to a place where I was so low in my acting that it was really bad that that was actually able to help me and propel me forward. Because if I wasn't that bad, maybe I wouldn't have tried to get as good as am today. Maybe I wouldn't have thought sought out the training that I was able to get. You know, I was able to work with people who went to Harvard. I have my one of my main instructors. It was a Harvard instructor Yell instructor, Juilliard. Rata a C T. These are great, amazing drama schools. If you go on, you have to look up like top 10 drama schools in the world. These are the ones that come up. So I wanted to work with the best. I got tired of saying, Okay, I'm gonna keep going to this class. I'm not doing good, but I'm still going. You know, Einstein's has. This has the same. And it goes something along the lines of If you keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, that is the definition of insanity. If you keep practicing the same thing over and over. You can't get any better, just like a basketball player constantly throwing the ball at the pole. He's just working on being a bad basketball player. He's never getting any better during the ball in the Net, and sometimes you have to watch what you're working on. Sometimes. Maybe that basketball player needs to work a little bit more on their cardio. Maybe they have to work more in the footwork or handling the ball, though, are different things that you have to do in order to get better. But sometimes instructors don't have a thought out method in order to get an actor good. And a lot of instructors don't care about actors. And those are some of the worst instructors that you can have because there are instructors who just want money. There are instructors who just wanna have their students come in, you know, maybe they tell some jokes that try and say some stuff. Then they leave and they don't make them a better actor, a coach's job. Their job is to make someone a better actor. That is their job. They're hired to make someone better. That should be their entire goal. You know? Maybe what they teach it won't make that person better. Maybe it won't, but it should never be an instructor who's like, Yeah, I just want the money, you know? Come on, come on in. Let's see what happens. You never want to work with an instructor like that. You always have to have an instructor that you can trust. And that's what I was able to get over the years. I was able to find these instructors. So I got my person from a C. T. Then I got this person from Rata that it went to Juilliard, then Yale, then Harvard. I was able to find these instructors and trust me, it wasn't just people who went to drama school, but granted, those are some of the ones that I did seek out. And I thought the Mount because I was thinking to myself, If these people have gone to the best drama schools, they've got amazing training. But these are people who, by the way, they're not. They weren't in drama school when I work for them. They were out of drama school, so they had already been working. They had been on movies before. They've been on television shows they've been in place, so they got the training that they needed from their drama school. And then they tried to go into the real world and apply it, and they got to see what works, what didn't work. And I had to spend long hours with these people sitting down and talking with them and working scenes of monologues and picking their brains and finding everything that they learned and finding what works for them. How did they go about the characters? How did they become so good? What is it that they did? Because these were amazing actors. Phenomenal, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, but I didn't just get people who went to drama school. I also got actors who never went to drama school before. You know, sometimes people call him ST actors, but these are actors who have never gotten drama school, you know, maybe they got out some training somewhere in Hollywood before, but these were some people who are amazing actors, and I wanted to find what was it? What was it that they had that made them great and they didn't have to go and spend a lot of money, go into a drama school and then going out into the real world. How were they able to be so good? What was it that they did? I got to work with this lady who was on Broadway before she never went to drama school. But she was a phenomenal actress, so I got to find all these different people. I got to work with them all, and I got to put it all together into this whole entire course that you're gonna be watching. And I wanted to do this because I know what it's like. Trust me. I know what it's like to not be good because I started from that place is not being good. And then I got poor training that made my acting worse. It was all over acting, trying to force the laugh out of the audience. And it wasn't something that was beneficial. And by the way, the place that I was training that when I was younger, that places Actually, I'm not going to have the name of it. But that place is actually considered a great acting school. There It's considered a school where you get great training. They have a reputation for that. They don't have really a high reputation for maybe people who come out of it. But they do have a high reputation where they are very notable for having good training. But I went there, and from my experience, the training wasn't good at all. So it just depends. You know, sometimes something some trainings considered great, and it may not be. Sometimes it's not. I'm going to give the example through this course. It's gonna be called our refrigerator method and our refrigerator. What it is is we have this imaginary refrigerator and it has a bunch of food inside. Now we can either have food that is good for us or bad for us. So say if you're if there's a person and they're really unhealthy and they're walking around like I don't know why I'm so healthy. I don't know why I have this issue or this issue or this issue, and they're really unhealthy to get, you know, they get up, they walk from their couch to the bathroom and back. And then there really tired. Gosh, and then you look in their fridge and you see that there's a bunch of cake. There's a bunch of ice cream, there's a bunch of candy, and then you realize that, Oh, they're not eating Rick. They're not eating very healthy. So for this refrigerator method, you want to take everything that's in there you want, take everything that's bad out and keep everything that's good in. So if you're going through the refrigerator and you see on your top shelf, you're like, OK, I got some carrots. I got some broccoli your next shelf. Okay, I got Cem breads, celery, some whatever and then the next show. Oh, there's a bunch of mouldy food in there. What would you do as a real person if you actually had? This is a real refrigerator. You have mouldy food. What do you do? Will you pick it up? You throw it up. That's what you would do in real life. That's why I love this example so much because in real life, if you have mouldy food, you pick it up, you throw it out, and that's a little bit kind of what are bad acting it. It's having bad training that was given to us bad ways of working bad habits that we leave in the fridge and we never take it out and throw it away. And that's what we have to do as actors. We have to take everything that's good, Everything. That's good, having enough ridge, everything that doesn't work for us. We throw it up. We don't keep it. We don't give it a name. We don't give it a second thought. You know, if you have food in your refrigerator and it's moldy, you don't think you know should keep it. Should I wait maybe a few days and see what's gonna happen? Maybe it'll get good. No, it doesn't happen if something is bad of its moldy. If it's old in your friends, you pick it up and you throw it up. If you do that in your real life every day, what makes it different when it comes to acting? If you have training, if you've been working somewhere and you're not very good and the training is not working for you, then why do you still work there? Why are you still trying to become a better actor at that place? You know I want you to think about right now. Where you out in your acting? What level are you? Are you horrible? Not so good. Bad, good, really good. Amazing. Where are you on this scale and find How long have you been there for? Why have you been there? Has the training that you've been getting not been working Because if you're constantly working like Einstein would say doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, you're never gonna get it. It's not gonna happen. But now let's say you've never done acting before and you want to start Well, hopefully you come from a place where you can get a good basis. You can start from a very good place. That's why I love having actors who have never worked at all before. Because then when they come to me and I get to work with them, I get to say, Okay, we get to start from square one. We get to start from a place of not building bad habits. And that was something I had to break all the bad habits old about having had to break him , and then I had to go through all my instructors and find What was it? What is it that they had that was working? What did they do? What works for me when it comes to acting, I want to put in the least amount of work to get the most out of it. Other actors, though, from training that they've got, they want to get the But I want to put out the most energy and get out the most amount of work. Here's my thing. We've given example real quick if you give. If you put in an energy of seven, you put in an energy of seven year your backstage. You have to go on. This is really big dramatic scene in your backstage, and then you're going to this whole mental physical process. You're tiring yourself out. You know your head. You're thinking of all these horrible things. But block you put out an effort of seven on stage and then you get a result of, say, eight. My job. My goal for my actors when I trained in the approach that I'm going for is to put in an effort of three or four to get that same level of eight or nine or 10 to put in the least amount to get the most out of it. That's the most efficient way. That's what they try to do with even cars Nowadays. They don't try to say, OK, let's see how much gas can we fit in the car? It's saying how how little of gas do we have to use in order to make the car go? That's there going, That's my goal with acting, how can I work but putting the least amount of effort in so I don't have to get, you know, hurt by it mentally or physically or after the show. I can enjoy the rest of my day because I had to go and really experience everything to a degree where I can't just walk away from it. You know, if you're gonna get into acting and you have to experience it and you can't walk away from it at the end, acting can be somewhat of a dangerous thing to get into. It could be something that can be more hurtful for you than something that's fun, because we get into acting because we're trying to play. We're pretending we're having fun. That's the perspective. I like to go. That's what My perspective of my Juilliard, Harvard yell A C T rotter Instructors. That's what they all had. They all had fun with the work. They didn't come off and they were like, Oh, my gosh, I can't I can't talk to you for the rest of the day. I got to get I gotta get going home. They were able to put on the great work on stage, and they were able to walk off and live the rest of their day. And that's kind of the approach that I go for. Put in the least amount, get the most out of it. Um, so how do we do this? Now? I want all of you for this entire course to put your full trust in me, putting your full trust. I don't want you toe have all these different thoughts going on in your head when I'm giving an example. Don't think. Well, what about this? What about this? What about this? Because what happens is is we start to divert from what's actually being talked about. And maybe that question that you would have would get answered if we just paid attention and focused. And now this isn't your fault. Society has kind of created us to be people who try to question a lot of things being like , Wait, what about this? What about this? People who are cynical like Oh, wait, what about this point Weight, but doesn't actually apply to this or this for right now. I want you to drop everything. I want you to really focus, really. Focus in on everything that I'm gonna tell you throughout these videos. Because if you do, if you can focus in on everything, everything I'm giving you, your work can become much stronger. It become convict, come much better. You know, I like to tell a lot of people if you can stick with this, if I can. If I could be with you every single day of the week and I could wake up in the morning with you and I wake you up and say, Hey, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this And I'm scheduling your day and I'm with you 24 7 Do you think that you're gonna become a better actor? Trust me, you would. And I can't be there with you. 24 7 but I can create this course and this is a close as I can get to helping you guys. But what you have to do for me to help you is you have to drop everything that you've ever learned or known about acting. Forget about it all. Forget about every single thing. Now, this doesn't mean that you can't bring it back because I do have that refrigerator method. And I'm saying, hey, if it's good and it works for you, bring it back, put it in. But right now, we're gonna go and we're gonna take everything out of the fridge and we're going to start putting some stuff in and we're gonna play with this and we're going to see how it works. Does it work for you? Doesn't make you better. Does it help you in the long run? Does this build a longevity for your life or your life being your acting career? Does it help? Does it benefit you? And that's the process that we're gonna be going through now. I'm gonna tell you all this isn't something that's gonna happen overnight. It's not gonna be like, OK, you watch the video and then the next day you're amazing and you're good. I'm sorry. If that's the course that he tried to get, That's not gonna happen and want to tell you why. Because if you wanted to go and be an amazing basketball player yeah, okay. I want to do best. That's my thing. And you get a coach and you guys work. One day, it's, Let's say you guys work for five hours straight. You put a good hard lesson and work into that to that day, and then you go to sleep, you wake up and you're pumped. Okay? Had a good had a good session yesterday. Let me go to the basketball court today. You get your basketball, you start shooting the ball and you're missing. Every single one is not something that's gonna happen overnight. You have to work in practice in order to get better. Einstein. He was very smart, but he didn't just wake up and was instantly I know everything that I know. He had to still study everything he had to study in order to get smarter, to build new ideas, to build concepts, to build theories. He had to study a basketball player. They have to work every single day. Kobe Bryant, Do you think he just I went to sleep, woke up one day and was great? No, he had to work at it. If you want to be a concert pianist, you have to make sure you put in the hours the practice every single day. Music is an art. You have to work at it. You have to practice. You want to become the best. You got to really put in the time really put in the effort. If you don't, then you're not gonna get as good as you want to get. There's people who practice once a week. There are people who practice five days a week. The people who practice five days a week get a lot better than the one who practice one who practices for one day. You know, as long as they're practicing the right way, is not the example of throwing the ball at the pool there, still throwing it, Yemen that. But they get way better because they put in the time they put in the work. So I want you guys to do this for May. You're gonna You guys are gonna watch. Hopefully one video a day. That's my goal for you guys. I say there's hopefully because sometimes people get really excited. No, no, no. I gotta I gotta watch all of them at once When I can do that in the future. For now, I want you to watch one a day, and I want you to apply everything that you learn. So, for example, you go your like day one. Okay. I learned as much. I've learned from the video. It tells me to do this. Okay, That's what you're gonna work on throughout your whole day. Then day two, you get the next video. Then you work on what's in that video. How to apply it into your day and you work on the previous video. So you're having two things. And then on the third day, then you have three. So what they say, scientists have said something about there's different different ideas for this. But they say it takes about 30 days, 30 days in order to build. And you have it in order to break habit that you have. So if we want to build a habit of being good actors then we have to spend at least 30 days on it. If we want to break a habit, we have to spend at least 30 days. I want to give us a little bit more time and go with another study that said, It takes about 60 days, and if you can work every single day for 60 days and you're really focusing on acting, think about this for a minute. If you really focus on and it doesn't have to be acting, it could be anything it could say. You want to be good at basketball. Well, if you work on it for 60 days and you really put in the time you really putting the effort , will you get better? Most people, if not everyone, would say, Yeah, of course I get better. It's gonna be the same for acting like I said, It's not something that you sleep on and then you wake up in your amazing that this is something that takes time. It takes effort. It's just like music. You have to actually work with it when it comes to acting. People like to say, Oh no, I don't have to do everything I have to do to get better on AC, and I don't have to work on it all the time I can. It's just something that I try and I want you guys to start thinking of acting as being more of something that is treated more like a sport or more like a business. It's something that you have to work at every single day. It's not just good. You have to work at it. You have to develop it. You can't be lazy. If you're lazy actor, then that's another reason to leave the course. If you're lazy, don't be here. I want people who are willing to work who are dedicated and who want to become better. But if you're lazy, you're never gonna be able to improve never. So make sure that you start with a blank slate. You get rid of everything everything, and that will help you start to learn more of what's gonna be incorporated within these videos, and you're gonna find different concepts and ideas that will be able to sink in more with yourself. The next thing I'm gonna want you guys to do is make sure that you write everything out, get your pen right out everything. Write it all and highlight the points. That really makes sense to you. The reason I'm having you do the writing parts because this is something I learned from my Harvard instructor and it was a pain in the beginning. Some like it really After write all this down. I have to write this. I have to highlight this, but it does help you remember more, and it helps you understand more concepts. And if we're going through this course and we really want to put in the time in the work to become better if you're really dedicated to becoming better, if you truly do want to become a better actor, then you have to make sure. Okay, you're gonna put in the time and work that you have to sew, right? Everything that you need to down and highlight those points that make sense to in this course and when they would be working at a very high level. So I'm gonna be working on a level with you guys that my instructors would have worked out with me. I'm gonna work at you at the top level. The very, very top I'm gonna work like as if you were gonna be one of the biggest movies. Uran Oscar movie. I'm gonna work with you on that level because even if you don't make it to be in an Oscar movie, well, at least if you're working at that level Hey, if you want to be in a really big play you can or a TV show or movie that's not maybe an Oscar movie, but it's still a great movie. If you can apply these concepts and these ideas that really work at them, it will make you a lot stronger than after last late again. I want to say thank you all for being a part of this course. It makes me so happy just to know that there are actors out there who are really trying to get better, who are trying to learn who are really wanting to do something else to not just say OK, I'm gonna settle where I am with my craft. They really want to go and get to another place, become better, so just thank you all for May. It lets me know that there are still actors out there who want to do good work. So I'll see you guys all in the next video. Remember? Start from a blank slate. We have that refrigerator, we're going to start putting stuff in everything in there. But you had before it's out. We can bring stuff back later on as we go through. But right now it's all up. Once you finish the course, if you want to bring some stuff back, you can. But just wait and see what you get first see what we put in and see how it works for you. And then if you say, hey, you know, all this is great. And now I can throw back in my, um, broccoli by broccoli before was working great for me. I'll put it in. But I have some celery and cabbage and all this other stuff toe have with it, and that'll help. And that will be beneficial for all of you. So again, thank you all makes me happy. And I want to make you guys happy going through this course. So I'll see you guys in the next video by guys 3. Video #2 Believability: thank you for tuning in and staying productive. So today, what we're gonna be talking about is believability. Now, believability is something that we all want. Everyone wants it. The actor just starting out wants to be believable as well as the actor who's in an Oscar winning movie. That's what we're all striving for. Now remember, this video in the next few that you're gonna be watching is to help you get the foundation . If you had a treehouse, an imaginary metaphorical tree house and you could put anything you want inside of it, you could have a game room. You could have a bowling alley. You could have your sports car inside a swimming pool, a basketball court, anything you want. You could put it inside, but now, if you have this great, big awesome treehouse, but it has no roots, what's gonna happen to the tree? Bloom is gonna fall. It's gonna plummet to the ground. The other example I gave was how we have our refrigerators. We have our first shelf, second shelf and third shelf, and on one of our shelves we see there's a bunch of mouldy food. We're gonna try and throw away everything. All the bad stuff. So for these next few videos kind of start to just forget everything that you already know everything that you already know from your training in all of this stuff. Whatever you have, start to forget it and start to pay attention to what's gonna be within these next few videos. Now, of course, I'm not saying don't bring him back. You can bring him back when you want. But for right now, for the purpose of moving forward in understanding everything and getting all the concept down, Let's come from a point of being completely blank listening and trying to follow along so we can stay on top of everything that we're doing. So for believability, how can we be believable? Something that I like to think about is how our personalities that we already have not trying to act, not trying to change anything are already pretty darn perfect. Yeah, sure, There might be some things about yourself that you're like, you know, I would like to change this where I want to change this. Who cares? What you have right now is what you have, right? That's the first thing. Except that whatever you got, that's what you have. And it's OK. It's not bad. You have some things that I don't have. I have some things that you don't have and, you know, our neighbors across the street have something that we both don't have. So that's all right. I just realized that world different were all unique people. And we all have something to offer now in our everyday situation. Right? If we had to have a scene and I said, Here's your scene. I want you to take it. I want you to go to that Starbucks person. Um, within the scene here. So you have your actress, and it's saying, Go to the Starbucks person Say, Hey, can I have a cup of coffee? Um, and you know, did you see that car out there? Looks it looks really cool. Um, say that right? Poorly written script right there that I just made it with 30 seconds. But let's say that's it. So you go up, you say, Hey, how you doing? Um, and you let's say you know, our I order the hot chocolate. And did you see that that car out there right? Poorly written script whatever. But now say if you went into an actual Starbucks in your real life and let's imagine you were going to say this right, No script, nothing. I didn't say I'm not your director. I never came up to you and said anything. This is just you living your everyday life and you just happen to go into a Starbucks to kit some hot chocolate. So naturally you would just walk in there and you'd say, I haven't going. I'm here to order a hot chocolate And then, you know, maybe if you see a car catches your eye and you said, Well, did you see that car? Maybe it looked like like the biggest, baddest car you ever seen, who knows? But that would be believable. What you say, what you put out into the world of that room and Starbucks. It would be very believable because it's just natural you're going up there and you're saying this is what I want. You're not trying to do anything to it, which you don't really have to a lot of actors. What they try to do is they try to make things bigger. They try to show a lot But really, you don't have to do anything now. Don't get this confused. I hesitate to say you don't have to do anything cause then you know you get people who just stand there and they don't have anything going on. But you, uh, you really don't have to do as much as you think Robert De Niro said this before, and he said, You don't have to do anything. You don't have to do nothing. You don't have to do anything. You just keep it simple, keep it, keep it light and I won't even use the word keeping it small because sometimes when that word is used, people tend to think Okay, all not used my regular natural personality at all and all just go really small. When people say go small and third, you're saying small using, you know, really being really using your everyday personality. But a lot of times people go really small instead of saying hi, how are you? It could be something that's like, Hi, how are you? You know, it's just it's a weird thing that people that people mix up with wording sometimes, which is one thing that acting classes don't necessarily, always do. They don't give you a full, better description on what some of the meaning of their terminology is. But anyways, on to the point that I'm trying to make when you have the now a scene and you're in a class or let's say you know you're on a movie set, can you have the same scene? Starbucks saying they hand you the script and then you have it, and then you say, Oh, OK, got it, Got it, Got it. So there, go in there and they might be like, Hey, how are you? They'll have the room, huh? I'll have ah have the hot hot chocolate. Yeah. Great. Hey, did you see that car out there? That's what happens a lot. They're still trying to show you everything the tryingto overactive. So the first thing was, they came and they said, Hi, how are you? The voice was kind of weird. It's just like it's like, boom, throwing it at you, which we don't tend to usually do in our everyday lives. And then, um what was the next thing I did? I did the hot chocolate right. And I said, Oh, and then I'm looking up and I'm trying to choose my car. What do you do? How many times do you go into Starbucks and you see people doing the video? If they want a hot chocolate, usually what's just gonna happen is they're gonna come in and say hi, how are you? But whatever common courtesy and then ask for their hot chocolate, they're not gonna go home. And I want you could have added some nail biting in there. You know, whatever. It's trying over Axel, the audience viewing this is like, Oh, look it. He's thinking the audience isn't stupid. The audience isn't dump their when they see it there, they're gonna know, like something something's up. Something's not feeling right. If they don't right away. Say he's being fake, they're just gonna physically feel that something is just not right. Just rubbed him the wrong way. And then there's the whole thing with the car where I did, I think it didn't like a double take or something I would Oh, hey, did she? Did you see that car out there? It's just that was over acting it, and that's what a lot of actors do, though that's the problem in a way that was good for you, because you realize that there are a lot of actors out there who some. There's something. There's actors out there who are good, but there's a lot of actors who aren't and that are just like this. What I showed you trying to show everything that's going on. So in a way, it should make you a little more positive about your career because you can say, OK, well, you know, I can at least be better than that. And if you're better than that, well, hey, you get better chances than they get But that's just one. That's just an example of how once a script gets involved. Once once of directors involved or we know we put pressure on ourselves. That's when all of a sudden the believability that we would have gone into a regular Starbucks leaves and we don't have it. We put too much pressure on ourselves. One of the first things to start to realize is to get rid of that pressure. We're gonna talk more about it in one of the future videos coming up here, but you really you really want to try and avoid the pressure as much as you can and just think about it not as being a scene or trying to impress your director or anybody but really just sitting there and thinking, OK, all I'm doing in this scene is going asking for, uh, hot chocolate and then saying, Did you see that car over there? That's all that's being asked And if you could do it and you're really and you're believable, that becomes interesting. It's so much more interesting. Toe watch someone do something as simple as that and be believable compared to having them be like, Oh, I voted. Oh, what? Whoa ho! Did you see that car over there? So much better to just be in their urine. Hot chocolate. Great. Only see the car over that. You know you don't have to overact anything at all. And that's one of the problems that people have. It's the whole overacting factor, and now people might say, Well, well, how do I What if I want to go in and make it interesting or do something with this? Don't worry, We're gonna get into that as well, but just focus on some of the beginning things is, if you're having those thoughts pop up right now, what about this? What about this? What about this? Get rid of them, get rid of him and focus on what's actually being said. Now what's being said now is you have to just be believable. And what I'm saying is don't overact. Just think. How would you do it in your regular everyday life? And bring that Teoh to the table? That's the first thing. Just focus on that. And if you if after this video you go in you and you try to implement any of this you don't want Teoh, you don't want to be thinking. Oh, what about this? Or how does it apply to this, or how does it apply to this? Start asking those questions later on. Right now. Just get used to the first bit that I'm saying and start to realize this is now part of your homework part start to realize what you do in your everyday life, you have to start to become aware of what you're doing, how you're interacting with the world. So, for example, if I was at Starbucks, right, these Starbucks is a big example Apparently, if I'm there and I'm gonna and I'm in line, I might actually just be in line. And just for a quick second, realized like, Oh, what am I What am I doing right now? How my standing in line. What am I looking at? What am I doing? Or if I go and I talk with, um if I go on a chat with someone, I might just think about Oh, how what am I doing right now? How my trotting with them and my leaning discern it weighs my body weight? Doing this is how you know, I'm excited to talk with them. I know, excited to talk with them what is going on. And I start to realize what I'm actually doing in the moment, becoming more self aware of my own self because you have to realize yourself is your instrument. What you bring to the table is what your instrument is bringing, and your instrument has been carved and fine tuned throughout, however old you are. So if you're 30 years old, then for 30 years you've been developing to the person that you are today 20 years old, 20 years. If you're 40 years old. 40 years you've been spending all that time developing who you are not maybe consciously all the time, but subconsciously. And you've learned things and you gained things. And that makes you an interesting person in yourself because you have elements to yourself that are completely different than May. And I have elements that are different as well. And we can bring that to the table as long as were Riel. That's why a lot of my work when it's put up, people like it. It's because I can bring myself to the table. I'm not trying to pretend or force anything or show the audience. They don't look at me. I'm doing all this cool stuff that I'm thinking about. I just keep it all simple and I keep it real. So start paying attention every day. What do you do when you wake up in the morning? Do you? Ah, Do you? How do you get out of bed? You know, how do you brush your teeth? What do you do? I mean, don't go overboard and think every moment of your life like Okay, what? I'm I What am I doing now? Okay. How am I doing this? What? What's going on? One of my doing. You don't have to do that. You know. Still be logical. Live your life. But in moments try to realize Oh, what am I doing right now? How am I reacting right now? How am I having a conversation with this person right now? Conversation a little bit is more important because you're having dialogue. Um, And when you're talking with someone or if you're having to talk for a long time, just think. What am I doing right now? How How my interacting with this person? Um, sometimes you can even wash the person you're talking with, and you can see you're like, Oh, that's interesting how they responded or okay. They When they talk, they they lean to their left side. How would it be if I talked and I lied to my left side? You know, you may not, you know, act like them, but maybe some mannerism that they have. Maybe you copy that. You're like, Oh, wow, that's really interesting. Um, but you have to just start first, being aware of yourself, start being aware of what's going on in your life. What are you doing? How are you interacting with people? And once you start doing that, you're gonna start realizing once you get a script in front of you and your acting, if you overact it, your start to notice it. So if you if you start paying attention to, for example, when you get your coffee it wherever it is, um and you say hi, I'd like to, you know, get 11 coffee, whatever. And you get a script and it has the same lines. And you're like, you go up there and you like, Hi, I'd like to get ah, 11 coffee. Well, then you're gonna start to realize you're gonna pick up on it and like, Whoa, hang on a minute. That there didn't sound right that sounded, you know, fake, which is great in a way, because you're starting to realize Okay, Whoa. I just added something that wasn't really at that point. It wasn't natural from it wasn't coming out naturally. And this is kind of working on, you know, working with your instincts. Still, your instincts of doing whatever you're doing in your everyday life and just taking note of it and realizing what you're doing, and this will help you a lot If you need Teoh, just use your phone as well. Pick up your phone and set alarms throughout your day and, you know, settle him. Start your day. When you when it's OK. When you know if you're at work or you're at school or whatever you're doing, don't send an alarm. Then if you're at an audition, definitely don't have a lot of co off and be like, Oh, well, I I was going through this course and they said to set an alarm when I said it for my audition time. You know, don't don't do that, but set times for when it will go off and you realize like, Oh, okay. And then you go and you turn your alarm often realize, oh, how did I turn my alarm off? What did I do to turn? Turn it off? Was that quick about it? Was I fast? Did I go and use both my hands to use one hand? What did you do in that moment? And that's kind of a way to keep you honest and a way for you to kind of keep on track and fall. Follow along with what you're doing. You have to start realizing that, um, and then when you have your characters, your start to realize that when you're doing a character, it's just a different version of yourself. That's all it is. Make acting simple. Don't think about anything else. Don't have your thoughts Come. Just keep the idea in your head that when you are doing a character, any character, it is just a different version of yourself. I don't have any other thoughts. Come on. Don't think of anything else that you've heard before. I realized that when you are doing a character right, it's just a different version of yourself. That's it. Don't overcomplicate it. Don't think of a ton of other things. Follow along with the course. Stay open minded. Write it down one last time. A character is just a different version of yourself, all right, I've said that about, I think, three times now. They say it takes three times for people to actually hear what's being said. So remember that it's a very important concept to get, because this applies into that when you are realizing what you're doing in your everyday life paying attention to how you interact with the world That is gonna help you realize what it is to be really what it is to be natural, what it is to be in the moment and realize what you're doing. You're paying attention to that, because in the long run, you're gonna start being able to add it into your scenes or your monologue or whatever it is. You know, someone may give you give you a scene and you have to go Teoh, a car salesman. And you have to say, Hey, I need to buy a car from you. Do you have anything in Brett? Whatever. Well, you know that. OK, well, you have to do is go and be believable. So you go. You go up there and you say, you know Hi. How's it going? I'm looking for a red card. You guys have anything in stock? Don't You don't have to do anything complicated jobs ago like Well, hey, Well, what's up, man? Do you, uh, city of ah, red red card in stock? Like it's just weird. I mean, hey, maybe in some in some random world, like some weird comedy you could do that you know, and that that's gonna be a video where we talk about the world that you're in. But for the most part, you just gotta focus on being believable. And once that, it'll be really easy to start shifting to other things. One last point that I want to make here, and it's an important concept is that we as actors recreate private moments in life. Ultimately, that's what we're doing, and that's what people really enjoy when they watch something. It's about having those moments that nobody else gets to see, and we re create them for an audience. So even a dinner table scene in real life, if people are actually eating dinner and it's say it's a quiet dinner, no one's talking. You put that on screen, and it's riel that is very compelling to watch because you're seeing everyone has their own stories going on. Maybe the dads there he's eating and you know, it looks like he's in thought about something. Maybe the mom. She's kind of looking at them thinking, Well, why are we so, so quiet? Maybe you have a kid who's then he's on his phone. Doesn't even care. You could tell a whole story with that, and all it is is just about having a moment in life being recreated. And that's what we're doing throughout all our work and all our scenes, the believability that we bring into a scene. We're bringing that believability because we're creating those private moments in life. If you are faking a scene that private moment in life, we don't we no longer get. We get it when it's believable, because we're compelled and we're in it and we believe it's actually happening. But when you break, when you break that and you're like but are overacting or doing all this stuff where it's not riel? We watched that, and we are no longer in a private moment. We're just watching people on a screen act, but we love being in those private moments. We all relish that, and that's what we're creating as actors were creating those private moments and we get toe watch that and when it's good, it's really, really good. So recap Um, we have character characters are just different versions of ourself. That's all it is. Characters or different versions of ourselves don't make it complicated. That's all it is, then we're working on the believability part. So in order to be believable, what we have to realize that our own Selves are perfect, we're believable every single day in our lives. It's just when we have to go and we do a scene that all of a sudden, for some reason, we stopped becoming believable. Start realizing and paying attention consciously, not subconsciously but consciously to what you're doing in your everyday life. How do you go in and how do you walk across the room? How do you interact with this person? How do you interact with your doctor with your parent with your friend? With whoever. How are you interacting with these people with dialogue, especially how what's going on? How are you leaning? What are you doing? And you start to realize what you're doing. That's riel, so you're paying attention to the moments in life when their riel. So then, when you have to go and you get a scene, you already realize what it's like to be real, cause you're paying attention to what's happening every day in your life. In the third point is realizing that we actors are creating private moments for the audience to see And a private moment is moments that are believable and real If we break that believability all of a sudden the moments are no longer private and we're lost But if we see it and you're believable and we're in those private moments we're gonna be very compelled to see whatever it is the people on screen Dio So write all this down. Do it. Apply it today. Start today Don't think OK, I'm going to apply it tomorrow. Start today. You can easily start finding what you're doing right now. What are you doing while you're watching this? How are you sitting? What are you doing? Start paying attention to those things. Whatever you do, if you call a friend up later realize How are you talking to that friend? You excited when you talk to him? Or is this a friendly like? Yeah. Hey, what's up, man? All right. Yeah. Cool. Or you someone who like you when you call it me like Hey, what's up? You like? Oh, that's awesome. And you're actually having a conversation with them? Start to realize that. So congratulations, all of you for staying through listening writing all this down. I'll see you in the next video again. My suggestion is to watch the next video tomorrow. That is my suggestion to you. There's gonna be some people who don't listen to their like I got to go through it quick so I can get through. You can do it, but you're gonna learn so much more is if you go through a day by day by day. Have a great day, everybody. Thank you. And we'll see you all in the next video, but by 4. Video #3 Unpredictability: Now we're gonna be talking about unpredictability. Eso again Make sure that you all have your pen and paper so you can write this down. And so nothing. It's confusing and you can keep everything in order and your thoughts in process. So for unpredictability first, what is that? Unpredictability is the thing that makes the work very interesting and compelling toe watch . First, you have to have believability and remember these air, the roots and foundations that we have to build upon. So everything is gonna be very important to make sure that we have in these next few steps . So being believable we have to have, we also are gonna have to have unpredictability now unpredictability, usually the people who are using this or of the big time actors. So if you're watching Oscar movies or Oscar nominated actors or one actors, they're going to see that a lot of them or using this, the work that is predictable, maybe good and believable that you're watching. But it's if it's predictable. Sometimes the work maybe is considered flat. You might hear that term, people might say, Oh, I don't know. It was kind of flat, and people don't always know what they mean when they say that, but usually by saying it's flat, it's not saying that the work wasn't believable. It's just saying that there wasn't any dynamic and there wasn't that unpredictability, unpredictability. It's kind of like the way to win the game. So if we think for a minute of acting as being a game and in order to win, you have to get that thing in there that's unpredictable. That's the way to win. And if we think about our every day life and what we have with unpredictability, let's think about sports real quick. The boxers, what boxers air going and they're going in there fighting each other and they're throwing their punches. It's the punch that's unpredictable that allows them toe win the match because if they know the punches coming, if they're predicting that the punch is gonna come, well, then they can easily dodge it. Punches coming. Aiken duck. I compare e. I can move back. I could do a ton of different things. Someone's gonna punch. I see the punch coming. Whoa! Well, then I'll try and counter punch first before they get me that. If it's predictable, then you can't win. But the unpredictable punch is the one that goes, and it knocks the other fighter out. Same with sports. If you're playing. Ah, if your plane say baseball, the ball is coming at you, you swing, you hit the ball great. But if you don't know where the ball is coming and it comes, you can miss that ball. Its unpredictability that wins the match is so with acting. It's the same thing. It's the unpredictability that allows us to move forward and do well. And that's why so many actors love good writing, good riding, good scripts. Because if you have good writing and you have good scripts, it's so easy to have the unpredictability be there because in the riding, it's already written in for you. But that's where a lot of people sometimes get confused about when they pick their scripts in the work. It's because some scripts you have to work harder to put in the unpredictability. It's already right out for you. It's already there, all the words on the page. You really don't have to do much at all. But when the writing is not very good, that's when you have to try and work the unpredictability in there yourself and your know that if you've done a lot of auditioning that there are a lot of scripts that are not very good, there are some that are great, wonderful scripts. But there are a lot of scripts that are not good, not solid. They don't have a great foundation it off. So we have to find how we can work through it and how we can try and portray our best work and still have that unpredictability in there. So there is this actor Paul Newman. He got he started any big about in the fifties or so. This is an actor that a lot of people should look up to. He's done a lot of work. He's been in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He's been in Hustler. He's been in Cat on a hot Tin roof. Or you may know him if you know the car, Disney's car movies. He was docked cuts and he was the voice. So he's done a lot of work, but he's also had his own. I think it's like a food company or something that he does, um, where all the money that it makes. He gives all that money off the charity. So I think, you know, last year, he the company that he had had gave away, I think in total of 485 million altogether. So he all that has been able to go to charity. So he's an actor that you should aspire to, because he not only puts up good work, but he also helps the world in the process of everything that he does. But the reason I bring him up is because he is an example of someone who has used unpredictability before. And unpredictability, by the way, doesn't have to be something that super Bic. It can be something that could be something that small and very simple. So one example that he did is there was this scene. I forget the movie and he was there, and he anything. His character is that kind of drunk and, you know, he drink his beer bottle. And then there was one of those, um, there was one of those, uh, pay machines that you have to pay. You know, you park your car, you put your coins in, and then it has the meter, the little the meters and he drank his drink. Then you walked up to the meter. He stopped there for a little bit and then just went down, give it a little kiss and then walked off. And that right there, that seem. And you might be thinking, Oh, well, what? He just kissed it. That's it. But that scene is so much more interesting than if he just drink his bottle and walked off . It adds another layer to the scene, and it's just a very small point. And you can put a bunch of those little unpredictable things throughout your movie or throughout your play or throughout your season. If you're on a television show, you can scatter it throughout, and then you can have those big moments where you have those hi arcs of unpredictability that you put within the work. But you have to find How do you get the unpredictability in there? Something you wanna watch for, though, is don't get so used to say no. Okay, well, Paul Newman, he's a great actor in this scene. He just, you know, kissed the meter real quick and walked off. Well, I'm going to do that. And they say, and you start kissing everything. That's not what I'm saying at all. You don't. You don't wanna be known in Hollywood as the actor who will kiss whatever. Um, so so you want to be careful that you don't overdo it too much? Because if you are, for example, having that be something that you're doing in the scene, well, you don't want maybe every scene to be something, you know, that you're kissing everything you're gonna have different things that are unpredictable, that are not always the same. Um, and that's something that you want to try and see if you can add in. But you don't want to just do something unpredictable to make it unpredictable. I mean, it has to still flow and work within the moment of the scene. So in that moment, he was kind of drunk, and he went, and it's like, Okay, weakened by that. But now let's say that, um, your character is, um, on a date right on the day. And this is supposed to be a movie. It's a dramatic movie, right? Your character, He's on a date. They're walking there at the park and then all of a sudden he runs off and kisses the swing set and then runs back and starts talking with this girl. Well, that if I'm watching, it would be very unpredictable. I wouldn't expect it at all or if he's there, and then he just dropped to the ground, starts doing the worm. I wouldn't expect it, but it wouldn't be good. That would just be something where that would be stupid. Really? You'd be watching it. And you'd be thinking Why? Whoa, Why did what's happening? Why is this happening? Um, you know, if the script in no way calls for that all of a sudden, just put in. Don't put something unpredictable and just to put it in. But if it works within the scene and it works within the moment, then sure, then you can put it in. But don't just say, OK, I want to just be unpredictable. So I'm just gonna it's do something random, not saying to do anything random. Don't do random things be unpredictable, but within the scene don't just think. OK, well, I have to do something unpredictable. So ought to do something random. You have to still live in the world that you are in. But now let's say you're shooting a comedy movie, and in this movie, your character has random moments of dance. FAZ ums, right? Whatever comedy this is, there's been so many movies out there that this could literally one day be a movie, a character who's dance, spasm if it hasn't already been created. And this character, let's say he just randomly, he just has to do some kind of dance move. So then, while they're walking at the park, all of a sudden he drops to the ground, starts doing the worm. Okay, that one you can buy more, you can say OK, in the world of what we're watching, I realized that this character has this issue and then that's why this is happening. And it works in that in that scene. But if it's not supposed, Teoh have that at all. It's not, you know, within the script or in the world that your characters in of being some random crazy, you know, have to dance guy. Well, then you don't want to put that in because it's just going to seem very random. We're not trying to be random. We're just trying to be unpredictable because remember, the unpredictable person can win the game playing tennis. It's the ball that you hit and that we don't predict going into position, that it is that we miss. If we predicted, then we know for playing chess. It's the unpredictable moves that beat us. If we know Oh, this person moved his Pontier. I see what they're trying to do with that bishop there. Then we know. Then it's not. Then, you know, it's not fun. We know we're gonna win. But when it's unpredictable and you see it happening, Van, it's super compelling. Storylines love to do this to like the rocky movies in Iraqi. It's very unpredictable. You have this person who's the underdog, who he doesn't, you know. He doesn't think he's gonna ever go anywhere. And then all of a sudden he gets the chance to fight one of the best boxers you know in the world at that time, and then he trains and he prepares and then he goes and fights, and then when he goes and fights, he does very well. He doesn't he doesn't get beat down every time he gets hit he comes back in again, he comes back and again. It's the underdog story, but it's also there's hints of unpredictability in there throughout the movie. And then in the very end, some people might say, Okay, well, it's the underdog. He's coming up. He's gonna he's gonna just win and then he doesn't win. But he stood through every single match, and that's what's so powerful and compelling about that movie in many other movies that throw this in. So you can see, for fact, how unpredictability is vital. And it's something that we should all have and that we all need to use and that we should implement into our work. Um, you know, like I said by Viola Davis, she has mentioned before. She's like, since scripts are so important and if the script is written really well, then you don't have to do anything. But she said that she admires the actors who have bad scripts, and then they make something magical out of it. And I agree. If you have a bad script and you have to work and make something magical out of it, well, then you're gonna have to really work and find what you can put in there and how you can be believable within the work and include unpredictability. So when you're trying to include unpredictability, how can we practise this? How how do we How do we work it? What do we do first? What you have to do is for your script that you're given. So if you're auditioning or if you have already got in the part, they're either gonna have. You have the full script, We're gonna have a scene of what you're working on. You have to know what's going on. So you have to look at and you have to know. Okay, this is who I am. This is what's happening. But but But But, Block, we're gonna talk more about that later on. But you have No, you have to know that. And then you have to find aware within here Can I start to try and add something unpredictable and you have to see Okay, what makes sense within the world that you're in and what type of character you're playing . And this sometimes it takes practice. And sometimes a good way to practice is if you do have classes or if you are on the movie set or if you are in a play, you can try these things during the rehearsal process. Or you can run them by your director and say, Hey, I have this idea. Do you think we could give it to dry? Then you can see how it works. And then if it doesn't work, you throw it out. If it does work, you keep it one way to kind of build up our senses for learning what's good and for unpredictability is to watch movies and really watch the actors that your liking and seeing okay, what are their do? What are they doing? When is unpredictability happening? When are they doing something where you're like, Oh, I didn't predict that it could be a simple as a character is so, so confident that when we watch it that where that's what surprises us were surprised about how confident someone can be, how unpredictable that is, like, Wow, how does that happen? Sometimes it's a joke. Sometimes it's a joke that said that we don't that we don't expect and that makes the movie so funny or we see that character. We think that's the funniest character in the movie. It's because things are happening that we're not expecting it all. But like I said, if you keep doing the thing that's unexpected so much, that's unpredictable, then well, then it becomes predictable. If you're a fighter and you're constantly throwing some punch that you're doing a hook and you're like, Oh, this is always whatever unpredictable for people. Well, after you do it 10 times that 11th time, it's gonna be pretty darn predictable that someone's going to be able to stop it. Dodge hit you first, whatever. So you don't want to use it over and over. There's this actor. I know who he's not Too bad. He likes to cry crying. Crying is his thing. He could do a comedy. He could do a scene where nothing's really happening and he'll just sit there. Then his eyes will start toe water. Or it could be a high intensity. Whatever it is, every single scene I've seen this person work always. There's always like his eyes were getting watering. The tears are coming out, and at first when you're watching this, it's kind of like OK, that's kind of neat, like, because it's unpredictable, your because you start to wonder and you're like, Why? Why? Well, what's happening? Like what's going on? And you know, there's different. There's different tricks. Crime. He's using his but, um but I have his eyes, water. It is It does depend. Sometimes it a little water and then moments. Then it will start to pour out, depending on the scene he's doing when he wants to let it out within that scene. Um, but that's his thing. That's his thing, that it's unpredictable when people are first initially watching. But if you see this actor multiple times, then you see every single scene that this person ever does. Always there crying always and it gets very boring after that. At first I thought, Okay, that's interesting. Like I don't know how they came up with that, but that was interesting. Toe watch. Um, but then after you start to see it in every single piece of work, then it just becomes born, and it's like, Okay, when is he gonna cry? Today, when one of the tears coming out okay, one isn't gonna happen. Then you start to expect it, and then it's no longer unpredictable, and you know this person. He's done a lot of a lot of theater work, so it doesn't get in the way as much because people may not recognize him from theatre work to theatre work to theatre work. But when he goes and if he ever does television shows or movies, um, if it ever happens for him, he's gonna It's gonna become so predictable that every time people watch him, it's just gonna be like, OK, when you gonna cry is gonna cry this time Oh, he's gonna cry now at some moment you know it's gonna crack Could be the happiest movie in the world There's gonna be tears coming out of his face Given the funniest movie in the world, tears of coming out Most dramatic movie in the ward, A horror movie. Tears are gonna just gonna come out at some point. So you want to be careful to not have the tears or the thing that you have that's unpredictable, that you're doing it so much. You don't want to carry through toe every single movie that you're working on. But you wanna have Maybe for one movie you have one unpredictable thing that you're doing throughout the movie or that's the same or you have inconsistent things that are unpredictable. You do one thing, one other little thing, another little thing. I like that more personally. I think that's more interesting, and you can see that the, um, actors who are in Oscar movies it's there, and a lot of it is because the script and the writing is so good that it's there. But then the actors are also bringing it, and that's what makes it so darn powerful. So if you start watching movies and you start paying attention to the things that are unpredictable, that's gonna help you out tremendously, because you're gonna start watching it and you're gonna start paying attention to him. That's the whole point. We've got to start rewiring ourselves a little bit to start looking at acting differently and thinking about it differently. We have to think, you know, if you are wanting to become a basketball player, will you also you have to see if you're trying to, you know, do these different cool tricks, right? And you see a basketball player who does it, will you start watching them and seeing Oh wow, that was cool. They did that and you watch another basketball player. Oh, that was cool. And you start to learn by watching, and then maybe even implementing it. Would you help? A lot. So in order to build that unpredictability, we have to start looking at the script and finding inside. Where can we find the moments that we can be unpredictable? Or where does the script itself land of the unpredictability? And if it does, then you've just been given a whole huge golden nugget that can help you a lot. It can make. It'll make your seem so much more interesting. I can't necessarily say do this, and this will be 100% interesting because every scene and every script is different and every actor is different. Some things that might be interesting for me that I might do that's unpredictable. It may not work for you. For whatever reason, Um, or an actor that you know, or yourself whatever you have, may not work for me for whatever reason. Some things that just works for people better, and everyone has it, though, Like like I said before, we're all really interesting people. We spent all the years of our life coming up to the people we are today, and we just offer different things. We bring different things to a scene. We bring different things to the moment. So within the moments of these scenes for being unpredictable, we're all gonna bring something new. The actors, though, who can really be believable if you get stuff one down. That really helps a lot being believable because one, once you're believable, things naturally start to happen and come out. That's why there's a lot of actors I've seen who are really their non actors. But they've just, you know, took an acting class and try things out. And the reason that some other stuff is so interesting is because they're unpredictable. They're trying new things, and they're not thinking too much. But the actors who are thinking and they're getting really heading like, Oh, how do I do this bubble of a block? That's when they get into trouble. And if you could just be believable and think, OK, you're living in the moment, and then whatever happens comes out. Whatever is gonna come out is gonna be interesting in itself, and then, naturally, the unpredictability will come along. But sometimes if the next, if it's not coming along naturally, well, then we have to work it out. And we have to put it in because we know that's gonna be interesting. And if we know that, Hey, what we're doing is feeling kind of bland, and it's feeling predictable. Well, then we can start to try and add things in. And if you have a good director and you're already being unpredictable with some of your things there let you know, don't let you know if you if you're trying to be, do other things that are super, super unpredictable and it's too much. But what's great is if you have a good director of the company and say, Hey, okay, you know that That's okay. Tone it down a little bit. What? What you were doing before was perfect was great. And that's one thing you have to realize if you can keep trying new things. If it's not working, your director is gonna tell you Hey, it's not It's not working. That's the beauty of it. So you get to try, you can say, OK, got it, got it. I'll try. You know you have to be able to take directions, and when they tell you hey, tone it back down, you could bring it down. But that's where this this training and practice comes along. If you're working on being believable and you know what being believable is, which is just you and your everyday life. You're always believable. It just bringing those moments into the scene. And then you include the moments where you can be unpredictable, where you're bringing your own unpredictability to the character that makes it interesting for you. If you're doing a scene, that may be a moment where you're really quiet and then all of a sudden you burst out and you're allowed and you're you're crazy and you're acting out for you. That might be the thing that you do for unpredictability. You, your character. It's very light. He's very mellow throughout the whole entire play or seen or movie. And then, boom! There's a moment where he just jumps up and he's like, I can't deal with this anymore. And he goes, Not that could be something or it could be the opposite. It could be something where your character is really hard. Ah, hard character who doesn't let any feelings or emotions get in. And just think about movies where you've seen this before. The tough character, the character who's really tough. But then there's that moment towards usually the end of the movie, the climax where they break down and then they start bawling their eyes out and there really sad, and you see this super strong character all of a sudden fall to their knees. There is a moment of unpredictability there, and when we see that, it's very powerful, cause there's that contrast also, that we're getting to see, and that's the stuff that we like. So unpredictability is something very important that we have to try and include in tow all our work. Now, if you don't have unpredictability, it's not the end of the world. You can watch a lot of television shows in your see that there's a lot of it's predictable . So if you are unpredictable, it's not the end of the world. There are so many actors out there right now who are so predictable on TV that you watch that the actions not th