What Happens When an Actor Faces a "Bad Script"? - Michael Laskin
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Michael Laskin has been a working professional actor for over 40 years in film, television, and the theatre - from SEINFELD to BIG LITTLE LIES and a great deal in between. He has worked extensively off-Broadway, and at some of America’s leading regional theatres, including The Guthrie Theatre, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Geffen Playhouse, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, and The Mixed Blood Theatre Company.
Additionally, he was awarded a Fringe First Award at The Edinburgh Festival for playing “Richard Nixon” in TEA WITH DICK AND GERRY, which went on to a successful run at London’s Roundhouse Theatre. Michael also starred in the Canadian premier of the Pulitzer Prize winning drama “Talley’s Folly” and his most recent stage work was the American premiere of the one-person play, ALTMAN’S LAST STAND in Los Angeles. A recipient of a Bush Fellowship with The Guthrie Theatre, he was also awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award from The University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts.
A graduate of Northwestern University’s theatre department where he received his bachelor’s degree, Michael also has a masters degree in theatre management from The University of Minnesota. Additionally he’s taught acting at USC, UCLA, Queen’s College-Cambridge (UK), The Actors Centre (London), Art Center College of Design, Kennesaw University, the University of Minnesota, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and South Coast Repertory Co.
He’s had the privilege of working with some of the great artists in film and theatre, including Barry Levinson, Stephen Frears, Walter Matthau, John Sayles, Paul Mazursky, Bob Rafelson, Michael Langham, Robert Duvall, Roy Dotrice, and many others.
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As a filmmaker/screenwriter, are you open to an actor adding their own take on the character/dialogue? If the actor has a suggestion, what is the best way for them to approach it (eg., in the moment of the scene, speaking to the director privately, bringing it up during a table read, etc.)?
An actors job is to make sure that their performance that they give is genuine and feels real, whether the writing is terrible or amazing!
Our job as an actor is to sell the lines on the page, but also to use the in-between times to help make everything else work through nonverbal cues.
Where I train we do a SINGLE very quick read through of the entire screenplay just to get the backbone or arc of the story. While memorizing lines, we write down only our lines, remove all paragraphs and punctuation and memorize by rote so you're not locking in a specific performance. The performance of the dialogue should come from "working off" the other actors.
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I love that metaphor of as actors we create characters as adding flavour to the baked potato. I'm going to remember that!
For me. Authenticity is the most important thing. If I’m adapting a show and there’s something that comes up where either myself or even the actor feels like the character should derail from who they are in the source material of what I’m adapting? Then that feels narcissistic to me and at that point we should be focusing on making our own ip and not adapting a pre established one.
If the writing is great, forget about actors since they're mainly useful where bad writing is concerned. Let writers play the parts. After all, even children play. If the writing is great, anyone can play the characters. They practically play themselves.
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That sounds like the definition of a writers job
Makes a lot if sense to understand the world building and source material. Though this leads to a lot of questions. Why are actors encouraged not to read source material or learn original source material to alot of productions these days. There are a lot of actors who confirm in interviews that they have been told not to learn source material for the shows or movies they are to star on... which makes no sense to me
Agree with title, although the actor's portrayal is limited to the site of the Director.
Complete disagree with the title. Not an actor’s job to make anything out of a bad script. That’s another screenwriter’s job.
I disagree. Bad writing is bad writing and when all the elements arent in concrete (i.e. the writing) its not the actors job to rescue the scene.
this is not the actor's job. their job is to receive direction and perform their lines as stated in the script. the approach suggested here would get you fired off of my set.
Stan, I like what you're doing, but a little m more barbeque sauce on the potato please.
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