Playing For Real - Actors on Playing Real People

This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarchs or political leaders? Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart, Woolf or Darwin? What are the pressures of performing an icon like Marlene Dietrich? Bringing together original conversations with award-winning actors, the line-up includes Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins, David Morrissey, Henry Goodman, and Sir Ian McKellen.>

Product details

• Authors: To Cantrell, Tom Cantrell, Tom Luckhurst Cantrell, Mary Luckhurst
• Assisted by: Tom Cantrell (Editor), Mary Luckhurst (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9780230230422
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23042-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Screen Studies, Motion pictures and television