Two Year Acting Program - Jayden Key Interview - Maggie Flanigan Studio - Call (917) 789-1599

Two Year Acting Program - Jayden Key Interview - Maggie Flanigan Studio - Call (917) 789-1599

Two Year Acting Program - https://www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/2-year-acting-programs/emotional-preparation-opens-mind/ Call Maggie Flanigan Studio (917) 789-1599 The two year acting program in New York with Maggie Flanigan Studio, trains progressional actors to have long careers on stage and in film. Jayden Key, an actor studying at the studio, talks about how the training has helped him with intense mental blocks. Q: How does the Meisner technique connect with you as an actor? A: The imagination, I guess. One of the most significant things that happened in my life was the death of my brother. Before, when I acted and needed to be sad, I would think about him. If I were in these high-intensity scenes, if I couldn't feel something, I would think about being at his funeral, experiencing his death, and trying to let that trigger an emotion in me. A lot of times, it wouldn't work. Sometimes, it would work. Then half the time, I'm the most inconsistent actor, and you're doing a stage show, working with equity actors, and you realize, "Oh, f---, oh." You realize, "I'm not up to par." Sometimes, I'm doing well, but sometimes, I'm not. I just felt like when we're so early on. Still, especially during emotional preparation, it's opened my mind up to how to experience without forcing, without pushing out emotion, and without messing myself up mentally. Q: Yes, of course. What have you been learning about yourself this year through the work that's been a surprise or changed you? A: Just what emotions I block. The training so far pins you up against yourself. There are these times when I don't know what to do. I'll find myself knowing that this intense rage may be behind something, and I'll feel myself just throwing it away, knocking it down, and getting as far away from it as possible. I think that's been the most significant thing I realize, like once I'm scared to feel this way or I've decided to have the courage to love somebody. Having these intense mental blocks that Midori talks about like, "Oh, you were trained to guard yourself against all this trauma." It's not bad. It's just the way we are. The training so far has just been allowing me to expose myself. Q: You mentioned using what actors would call memory recall, to recall something that happened in your life. How do you feel like the work you're doing now with the Meisner Technique counteracts that idea? A: Well, it's funny. I've been able to experience a lot more negative and intensely rageful emotions by using my imagination than by actual circumstances. So that's been huge for me, to sit and think about something that isn't based on maybe people I know, but just based on an entirely imaginary idea of something and letting that somehow make me feel something. So I've just been surprised by that specifically. In acting class, they'd asked us to choose a dream show, a director, and the cast. She'd walked us through these steps. You get a call from your agent; you have this audition, yadda, yadda, it keeps going on, keeps going on. Finally, the show opens, and it's like I'm entirely in tears by the end of the show opening. I don't understand how I can be so emotionally ramped up about it. It's just crazy. I've just experienced before when I would deal with traumatic acting situations that would induce these terrible internal feelings. That hasn't been the case so far. Two Year Acting Program - Jayden Key Interview - Maggie Flanigan Studio - Call (917) 789-1599 Learn more about how Meisner training can help actors experience deeper emotions by utilizing their imagination, by visiting the studio website [URL]. Actors who have questions about enrolling in the two year program, can call the studio at (917) 789-1599. Maggie Flanigan Studio 147 W. 25th St. 5th Floor New York, NY 10001 (917) 789-1599 https://www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/new-york-ny https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17904951966372592922 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9vYW3rqJKd9WV6lIl7Je9A https://www.youtube.com/user/Maggieflaniganstudio https://twitter.com/MeisnerActing https://www.instagram.com/meisneracting/ https://www.pinterest.com/maggieflaniganstudio/ http://maggieflaniganstudio.tumblr.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/maggie-flanigan-studio https://www.facebook.com/meisneracting/ https://www.facebook.com/meisneractingnewyork https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/meisneracting10001/index.html https://maggieflaniganstudio.business.site/ http://www.pearltrees.com/maggieflaniganstudio https://www.pressadvantage.com/organization/maggie-flanigan-studio
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