Tag: "young actors"

Sober young actors – Staying healthy in a business with unhealthy pressures

Danielle Panabaker Danielle Panabaker [left] cautions, “You’d be surprised how many people are headed in the wrong direction [in Hollywood] and it makes me very sad to see these people with so much potential at such young ages getting involved in things that they should not be getting involved in. “I try to surround myself [...]

Giftedness and overexcitability – Such a busy mind

Amanda Bynes Amanda Bynes, talking about going to college, commented, “I have such a busy mind and it’s really hard for me to do one thing at a time. I can’t only be acting. I have to either be reading something or drawing. It’s hard for me to sit still.” Finding it “hard to sit [...]

Relationships and actors

Many talented people have difficulties in finding and keeping relationships that are meaningful and satisfying. Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson [photo: with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in "Match Point"] recently commented about particular challenges for actors: “I don’t think human beings are monogamous by nature. It’s difficult – you have to put a lot of effort into a [...]

Playacting: childlike creativity

Imagination is our essence Getting caught up in the more “serious” aspects of a career, you may lose contact with that child part of being an actor. As psychologist Robert Maurer noted in an interview that children are “playacting from the time they have words and the ability to move. They begin fantasizing, playing, imagining, [...]