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Hi, thanks for watching. I’m
Eric Morris the creator of the Eric Morris system of acting also
known as “The Work”. Today I’m going to talk about the Missing
Link in The Method. A number of years ago I was privileged to be
at the actors studio and watch Lee Strasberg for about 7 years and
in one session he made a curious comment or statement: He said
that the method as an approach to acting was an abysmal failure in
the world. That only 2% of the actors in the world used it, and
even less than that used it successfully.
There’s a very good reason for that. All of the master teachers
from Stanislavski, Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Sandy
Meisner never really dealt with the actors instrument. To
liberate, to free, to eliminate the problems and the obstacles
that the actors had that kept them from being free to act.
What I did from right from the very beginning… in this December I
will have been teaching 50 years… from the very beginning I
realized that it was very important to work with the actors
instrument. To do instrumental therapy, don’t let that word
“therapy” confuse you. Therapy is a way of eliminating something
it’s not psychotherapy. In any rate I innovated, invented,
discovered hundreds of exercises. At one time I had a thousand
different exercises, which I’ve paired down to three hundred,
three hundred and fifty, which I use now.
And these exercises are designed to free the actor from their
obstacles their problems their tension their fear their obligation
their dependencies their re-directions their compensations so that
they can act from a very real authentic organic experiential
place. Exercises like Vesuvius, Abandonment, Encounter’s with
People in critical areas, Blatant Sexuality if they sexual blocks.
I deal with every single acting block an actor can probably have
and I’ve invented 5, 6 7, 8, 10 exercises to antidote it. And over
a period of time and with repetition we get rid of those problems
and make the actor, allow the actor, be free to act.
And that’s what the missing link is all about. There is no missing
link when you deal with the problem. |
