actor artist obsessed maggie flanigan studio 03

But what do the best actors actually obsess about, and how do you begin to discover what and how to do the same thing if this is the ambition for your life’s work? The students who come to study with me and my teachers want an answer to this question. The low hanging fruit of this profession are the untrained actors who have (usually because of looks or connections) carved out a paid, middling career creating general uninteresting work. They make money, which unfortunately is the cultural benchmark of success. But they aren’t artists. They are the hacks of this business. The best actors are obsessed with craft, with human behavior, with psychology, with the physical and vocal demands that come with true character work, with the truth of the part. They are obsessed with doing justice to the screenwriter or playwrights words, they are obsessed with confronting failure and insecurity, they are obsessed with their physical instrument and how to use it artistically, they are obsessed with their own intellectual curiosity about the world and human experience, they are obsessed with their art. www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/actor-artist/actors-obsessive/ https://flic.kr/p/2jFpqFG