The Actor's Process Podcast: Recent Episodes

Kevin Dwane

A deep dive into the process and approach of working, booking actors; auditioning, script analysis, creating a role, training, and YOUR suggestions.

In Part 2, James explains

How he approaches audition sides
GPSing the text
Scene structure
Scene turns
Remembering to forget
Preparing... and Un-preparing
Working with Jared Leto on 'Dallas Buyer's Club'
How Matthew McConaughey ruminates on a script
and other on set experience

Noted for his finely crafted and nuanced performances, actor James DuMont is one of the busiest actors in both film and television.

DuMont just wrapped his 75th Feature film Safety for Disney & his 70th performance on television in Blue Bloods on CBS.

Mr. DuMont has amassed a glowing array of memorable characters in both film & television such as Track Suit Charle in the Netflix feature Spenser Confidential which was watched by over 75 Million households & is James' 3rd collaboration is both Director, Peter Berg & Mark Wahlberg having worked with them on CBS Films' Patriots Day and Lionsgates' Deepwater Horizon.

James has added to his growing gallery of historical characters on film most recently with Senator McClellan on Apple TV's The Banker starring Samuel L. Jackson & Anthony Mackie, J. Parnell Thomas in Trumbo opposite Oscar nominee, Bryan Cranston & Sherman Adams opposite the late Oscar winner, Robin Williams' in Lee Daniels' The Butler.

Recent Mini Series work include Amazons' The Underground Railroad from Oscar winning director, Barry Jenkins, recurring on NBC's Law & Order: True Crime: The Menendez Murders & Lifetime/History Channels' Bonnie and Clyde.

James is a Recurring Guest Star on HBO's The Righteous Gemstones opposite creator & star, Danny McBride, going into it's 2nd Season in 2021. His most recent guest star roles on television include CBS' Magnum PI & The Good Fight, NBC's Timeless, Netflix cult hit Stranger Things, Fox series 24: Legacy and CBS' CSI: New Orleans.

James DuMont is best know for Focus Features' Dallas Buyers Club opposite Oscar winner, Jared Leto where he played his father, Sony Classic Pictures Hank Williams bio-pic I Saw The Light & Universals' blockbuster Jurassic World. Other recent films include: TriStar Pictures' When The Game Stands Tall, James Brown bio-pic from Universal Get On Up & indie features The Hammer, Landline & Catch Hell starring Ryan Phillippe, which is also his directorial debut.

On the small screen, DuMont has had many notable recurring roles on such shows as the F/X series American Horror Story-Freak Show & Coven and the AMC series Halt and Catch Fire & Mad Men. Other recurring roles include Captain Richard La Fouchette for four seasons on David Simon's critically-acclaimed HBO series, Treme, working opposite Oscar-winner, Melissa Leo and opposite Golden Globe nominee, Ray Romano on the TNT series Men Of A Certain Age.

My guest this week is Holly Kaplan.

Holly has appeared on Better Call Saul, How to Get Away with Murder, House and numerous other television programs and films

I stumbled across Holly’s profile on Instagram, and then checked out her reel. When I see someone doing simple, strong, grounded and connected work, I know this is an actor we could all learn something from. you can view here work yourself at hollykaplan.com

Holly has a unique way of approaching her roles you’re not likely to hear anywhere else.

Kecia Lewisis celebrating 37 years in the entertainment industry. She made her Broadway debut at 18 years old in the original company of Dreamgirls, directed by Michael Bennett. Her other Broadway credits include The Gospel at Colonus (with Morgan Freeman), Big River, Ain’t Misbehavin’(standby for Nell Carter), Once on This Island (OBC), The Drowsy Chaperone(OBC), Chicago, Leap of Faith (OBC), Cinderella (as Marie/Fairy Godmother)and most recently Children of a Lesser God (directed by Kenny Leon). Off Broadway she has starred in the title role of Mother Courage, The Skin of Our Teeth (Obie Award) Dessa Rose at Lincoln Center (Drama Desk award nomination), and Marie and Rosetta(Lortel & Drama League nominations/ Obie Award winner ). Her television credits include Guest Star and recurring roles on Law & Order, Law & Order SVU(recurring), Madam Secretary, Royal Pains, Limitless, Conviction, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Blue Bloods, SMILF, The Blacklist (recurring), The Passage (recurring), Mad About You(recurring) and the Hulu series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga (recurring).

We continue our deep dive into Paul's Process covering

Beats
Actioning
Counter Objectives
Reading a Script (Script Analysis)
Sense Memory
Affective Memory
Inner Objects
Substitutions
and MORE...

Go to paulprYce.com to see the work we discuss.

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Be sure to visit PaulPryce.com to view his reel as is discussed in this episode.

Paul is a Yale School of Drama MFA graduate who has appeared on Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Unforgettable, countless plays and is the creator of a proof of concept trailer for a feature film he wrote and will be directing next year. Paul is a faculty member of hbstudio, one of New York’s oldest and esteemed acting schools, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn College’s MFA program. He’s taught master classes and workshops at Yale, NYU Tisch, M.I.T. Music & Theatre, Amherst College, New York Film Academy, as well as universities and acting studios in Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and South Korea, where he was for this interview. Additionally Paul does private coaching for MFA and BFA Auditions, Commercials, TV, Film and the Business of Acting.

Continuation from last episode in which we discuss her approach to her the roles that can be found below.

Link to her reel from her website (https://www.langleycornwell.com/reel-videos) and imdb page (https://m.imdb.com/name/nm7838919/!) and you can follow her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/langley_cornwell/)

Theatrically trained, Langley is known for portraying self-assured, educated, stylish women often with unexpected secrets.

A veteran character and improv actor as well as an established voice over talent, she spent many years in professional theater before transitioning into television and film acting.

On this episode Langley reveals:

Her unique experience of when she's acting well.
What she does if she drops out of a scene.
On set readiness.
Her approach to script analysis.
Working with audition sides

and more...

Link to her reel from her website (https://www.langleycornwell.com/reel-videos) and imdb page (https://m.imdb.com/name/nm7838919/!) and you can follow her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/langley_cornwell/)

And here's friend of the show, Rohit Chauhan's trailer for his upcoming short film, GLITCH, (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_U5h8YlA6E&feature=youtu.be) a link to his clever, funny, short film (I mistakenly stated it was on Instagram, duh!) LAST SUPPER (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oWm7V-M35Y). Follow him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/rohitt.chauhan/)!

On this episode, John talks about his training, on set readiness, working with audition material, reconnecting on set/stage to the scene, research for your audition, making a connection with scene partners, how to approach emotionally demanding scenes, bringing physicality into the scene, and the value of training and classes.

View John's reel before listening.

And here's a link to John's on how he created an Award Winning Web Series.

Mike Keller holds an MFA in Theater from The New School for Drama Mike was recently appeared as Detective Steve Torino on FBI, and as Internal Affairs Lieutenant McDonnell on BLUE BLOODS. He appeared as Officer Michael Fryethrough three episodes of THE BLACKLIST. You can also catch him on recent episodes of RAY DONOVAN, MADAM SECRETARY, THE GOOD FIGHT, ELEMENTARY, YOUNGER, THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA and opposite Forest Whitaker in an explosive scene from GODFATHER OF HARLEM. Mike currently appears as “Officer O’Callaghan,” opposite Bill Murray, in Sofia Coppola’s caper ON THE ROCKS, which is streaming through AppleTV+. I highly suggest before listening you view Mike’s reel at MikeKeller.tv/reel

Complete Bio Information at https://hbstudio.org/instructors/deblinger-david/

In this episode, David covers such topics as...

His Experience of what acting is for him

How he Prepares before going on stage or the camera rolls

How he accesses being Present

Ensemble Building and Exercises

Explains, "Acting is doing. – The gasoline for doing is meaning"

Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Drilling Down"

Anthony Hopkins script reading method

David's Acting Demo Reel can be found: https://vimeo.com/272977453

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Josh is a Graduate of, and Instructor at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting. In this interview Josh generously shares some of the tools, techniques and approaches of the Stella Adler approach to acting such as:

Awareness without Judgment The Three Levels of Justification Josh's method for preparation Finding the Theme The Three kinds of Actions Actions, Goals, Circumstances, etc

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In this week's episode, Austin covers such topics as setting up expectations for yourself and how these can trigger real response in you, tactics or actions, obstacles, how stand out when doing a monologue at an audition, etc. Please support this podcast by subscribing and sharing with your fellow actors.

Austin Pendleton is an actor, director, and playwright. He has acted in about 250 movies and appeared several times in such TV shows as HOMICIDE, OZ, and the different versions of LAW AND ORDER. Onstage in New York he has acted on Broadway (CHOIR BOY, at Manhattan Theatre Club; THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, with Natalie Portman; and as Motel the Tailor in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof); off-Broadway (Obie winner for THE LAST SWEET DAYS OF ISAAC; ROSMERSHOLM, at Manhattan Theatre Club; UP FROM PARADISE, a musical by Arthur Miller and Stanley Silverman, at Jewish Rep; EDUCATING RITA, with Laurie Metcalf); and off-off Broadway (title roles in KING LEAR, HAMLET, RICHARD THE THIRD, RICHARD THE SECOND; new plays such as CITY GIRLS AND DESPERADOES, DRESS OF FIRE, CONSIDER THE LILIES). As a director he has been represented by the premiere productions of: A THOUSAND PINES, by Matthew Greene; BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, by Stephen Adly Giurgis, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize; FIFTY WORDS, by Michael Weller, with Elizabeth Marvel and Norbert Leo Butz; Chekhov productions at Classic Stage Company such as THREE SISTERS (for which he won the Obie, and which starred Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jessica Hecht), IVANOV, which starred Ethan Hawke, and UNCLE VANYA, with Mamie Gummer; A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR, by Tennessee Williams, with Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole; WAR OF THE ROSES (Shakespeare, at HB Studio); HAMLET (also at CSC, with Peter Sarsgaard); THE LITTLE FOXES, on Broadway, with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton (five Tony nominations, one for direction and three for actors, including Ms. Taylor and Ms. Stapleton). He has written three plays: ORSON’S SHADOW (which ran off-Broadway for a year and was then done in London); UNCLE BOB, (which ran at the Mint Theatre in New York, and was then done in Paris, translated by Jean-Marie Besset), and BOOTH, which was done in New York starring Frank Langella. All of these plays have been published and have been done frequently around the United States. He has taught at HB since 1969.

George is a critically acclaimed actor, acting coach & producer, having appeared in over 30 productions on the New York Stage. George trained under legendary teacher and director Gene Frankel, as well as Wynn Handman, Terry Schreiber, Milton Katselas, Austin Pendleton, and the teacher that has most inspired his own approach to teaching. Harold Guskin.

George leads professional actors and newcomers with his unique "instinctual and intuitive" approach at his workshop The Actor's Instinct & The Art of Communication in Los Angeles, New York and online. This is a pre-covid recording through Skype.

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First interview, pre-covid. Dave is a New York based actor who’s appeared in numerous episodics and features most recently in Succession, a new HBO Series. Dave is also an on camera coach offering classes and privates. After the interview, stay tuned for my takeaways. Please support this one man show and subscribe and follow me on Instagram. Your suggestions for topics, questions to ask or actors to interview that you're in contact with are most welcome. Thank you for having taken the time! kevin@theactorsprocesspodcast.com

The Actor's Process Podcasts' focus is on what working, booking actors are doing, their process, in order that actors will discover something that will enhance and expand your acting. It could be something you never heard of or a new way of hearing something that gives you a greater insight and depth into your own acting process.