What Does It Take To Get Huge?
What does it take to get huge?
A recent four-day immersion into Acting Mastery, The Actor’s Inner World, included an ensemble of committed actors, ready to take on the question...
What do I truly long for as an artist, as an actor?
We didn’t know exactly where the journey was going, but there was a universal commitment to explore. We turned over some rocks... and then some boulders.
Who are you becoming?
Is something blocking what you want most?
The immersion made room for these questions by not only going deeper into the artform but by actively pursuing what it is to be a performing artist—to confront those questions that unconsciously stand in the way of our full potential as actors.
What blocks us, who blocks us?
The chains around your art, are the chains around your creativity, are the chains around your expression.
Our journey is to free—your art, your creativity, your expression. Not bury them, not try to extinguish them, but to communicate and open the dialogue with them, which will create expansion and the freedom to become Bigger.
Acting is bringing who we are into full expression—to achieve your own Mastery—to rediscover the truth of who you are and learn the techniques to get there.
Not only were the confrontations in the Immersion courageous but the acting produced from the exercises was compelling. The epitome of authenticity: Profound, personal, focused and deep.
I was transfixed.
Something new was occurring.
“What you taught has never been offered before…” My daughter Ariel, who produced the acting interviews with me, commented.
The Immersion exemplified what I know to be true—that an actor evolves through the artform of acting. It is built into the human experiment the artist is. Acting is healing… transformational without trying to be.
It hits the core of who we are so that we can make choices that move us out of the normal and into the exceptional. This is what an artist needs to be.
Exceptional.
The artist’s life is not ‘normal’ and it takes a certain committed and courageous individual to fully take it on.
As artists, if we don’t confront who we are as people, as individuals with a responsibility not only to ourselves, but to the life we’re living, then what are we offering?
Do we go on repeat as the person we have always been? Or, do we say No, there is something more, something bigger, something huge that I am? By saying it to yourself, you say it to all the world.
As you develop your inner cast of characters you expand your outer cast of characters.
For the actor, it takes a tremendous amount of bravery and perseverance.
Insight!
Trust!
Not only in yourself but in the ensemble of actors you take risks with.
When we are a band of seekers, we illuminate the way for the greater world.
But it begins with you—the actor—