Kia Ora and welcome to my podcast! I am Miranda Harcourt and I coach actors and directors all over the world. My clients have won and been nominated for many Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys and Baftas.
Do you want an insight into how they have achieved their award-winning performances?
Over on my Substack mirandaharcourt.substack.com you will find more than 50 articles about acting and directing. I have developed a series of tools and exercises for use in rehearsal and on-set that quickly get actors to where they need to be. You will find videos, images and references that will enrich your world and your work.
Now I am recording many of these key ideas and insights as podcasts so that you can listen wherever you are!
In this podcast episode MAKING MEMORIES I explore memory and imagination. How do we remember? How do we learn? And how do we use that to be creative?
When we tell stories, we often see images. Language is just a stream of sounds that we humans have evolved to describe and communicate the pictures that appear in our minds. Those images you see are derived from everything you have ever experienced, re-constituted into new combinations to create new universes in our consciousness, or as neuroscientist Anil Seth puts it: Our multisensory, panoramic, 3D, fully immersive inner movie
Enjoy this episode!
Here’s what actors and directors say about my approach:
Intuitive, unique, amazing — Nicole Kidman
Miranda’s skills as a coach place her at the top of her field. The work she does is unique anywhere in the world — Peter Jackson
Miranda is great — Jane Campion
Miranda really did teach me in that afternoon things that I still use to this day... if you can work with Miranda Harcourt, do it. She’s amazing — Melanie Lynskey
Miranda is brilliant... So encouraging, detailed and truthful — Ritu Arya
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