11 Aug Acting Student Finds Comedic Truth
Acting student finds comedic truth. To deliver a believable performance, you need to immerse yourself in someone else’s story. Did the character slip on a banana peel? Was he the last one to be asked to dance? When challenged with a comedic role the best thing is to seek the truth. So, when our young actors feel that they have stepped into the character, success happens in our Acting class. Take it from acting student Ryan deBernier:
“[Our Showcase and Acting Career Program] helped me express myself more…I would usually say as myself, and I could just feel being someone else. And I like that feeling…they’ve improved my acting, helped me memorize more, and helped me in a bunch of different subjects.”
Ryan recently graduated from our Showcase and Acting Career Program where he had the opportunity to audition for top Hollywood talent agents! Through this program, Ryan took several master classes in acting. He studied, scene study, cold reading, improvisation, and more! He also learned valuable industry information that helps as he pursues a career as a professional actor!
This talented young actor has already been featured on hit HBO shows like Eastbound and Down and Veep, and had a lead role in a sketch for the popular comedy site PYPO.com!
How to Find Comedic Truth
When creating comedic characters in our profession, there is no advice better than to remember that all comedy finds its grounding in the truth. Honesty is important in all acting, but especially in comedy, and finding the truth of your characters not only allows you to create a more believable performance, but will also give your audience, whether they’re the director or your family and friends, a stronger connection with your character. These small details about the character you’re creating always inform the performance. How does this character move? Do they dance when their happy, or are they the type to mope around the house? Being specificity to how your character moves through their world rounds them out, so it’s important to discover through imagination and experimentation.
What is the characters story?
It’s helpful to find where the character leads from. Are they confident and, sometimes, arrogant? Perhaps that character leads with their chest, puffed up and important in order to convey confidence. Maybe the character you’re creating is a wide-eyed intellectual who leads with their head, make sure that everything they do has a specific purpose. There are countless ways to give these characters a grounding in reality, so it’s important to experiment and have fun with it!
Not only is Ryan a great actor, he’s also a tremendous athlete. Ryan plays soccer, basketball, baseball, and tennis. He even has his yellow belt in Taekwondo, which he studies under Olympic Gold Medalist Grand Master Jun Lee! Suffice it to say, Ryan picks up anything he puts his mind to quickly.
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