I studied with Stella Adler and knew her quite well. I don't know what you mean by "inner size" and I don't know how anyone else could know what that means. But I can tell you what Stella means by "size." She means an actor must hold the stage and fill the theater and do it all absolutely truthfully. Stage acting is not film or television acting. It is not small, but it must be truthful. Listen to her use the word "epic" again and again. She demands living,dynamic work, nothing small.
@lanorte1
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Milton Justice, for posting these videos. Stella Adler was brilliant and her teaching is still as valuable today.
@hintsofblue
12 жыл бұрын
Fascinating woman ....Speechless when i listen to her teach ..she is always on cue :) thanks for posting
@ActingTeacher1
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Milton for preserving and posting these truly brilliant moments of History.Nobody was better at script interpretation and lecture than Stella Adler. Much like the classic plays she interrupted so beautifully, this clip is that of a particular time and place,and her behavior and speech rooted from her own experience and background .I met her when I was very young and she was not. I always felt she was very modern and had her pulse on what was current .See she is still teaching.
@legatofancier
13 жыл бұрын
@anthrobserver - Most people would not want to live on the difference between Stella & Sandy. They were great friends and allies all their lives, even though their teaching methods differed somewhat. Sandy always said that he learned a lot from Stella. The essential differences were that Sandy was more technically precise; Stella was more involved with style and script interpretation.
@miltonjustice
15 жыл бұрын
This comment was made in the late 70's or early 80's. It was during a period when everyone thought that the British actors had it all. They could do no wrong. Stella's point was that they had the outer size ... the voice, the mannerisms ... but not the ability to play the inner depth (inner size) necessary for modern characters.
@oscarumanzor
14 жыл бұрын
great knowledge
@legatofancier
13 жыл бұрын
@miltonjustice - As one Sandy Meisner's students, I can vouch for the fact that Sandy & Stella were great friends and allies all their adult lives. It was pleasure to work with Stella's students, they were such well schooled actors! I usually learned something from them. They might even have learned something from me. Just as Sandy, Stella, & Harold Clurman all probably learned from each other.
@nogov4us
12 жыл бұрын
Stella told us at a workshop that the british are born actors. But I think I know what she means that there are very few american actors who can play Willie Lohmann in "Death of a Salesman". Most americans don`t want to believe that their dream is over, thus, they cannot play the dissolusion that Willie is experiencing. But I bet they can now.
@LittleImpaler
14 жыл бұрын
@Mitchoover17 I agree with that Why argue over technique. In the long run Acting is acting. Why categorize an actor by their skills. It how you use the technique you have learn to bring the character alive.
@miltonjustice
14 жыл бұрын
@strawberrylaralara There was a time in the history of acting when actors developed "stage speech." Having grown up in Russian-Jewish household on the lower east side of New York, I can only imagine what her real native accent sounded like. She often told the story on herself. "I was buying something at Tiffany and the sales girl asked me, 'Are you British?' 'No, darling. Just affected.'"
@legatofancier
13 жыл бұрын
@atgny - Sandy Meisner & Stella Adler were close friends and allies all their adult lives. When Sandy spoke of Stella in class at The Neighborhood Playhouse, he spoke of her with great affection. Even after Harold Clurman & Stella were divorced, they remained great friends. The three of them - Sandy, Stella, & Harold - were remarkable people!
@legatofancier
13 жыл бұрын
@Dous88 - As a student of Sandy Meisner's, I respected and admired all of Stella's students with whom I eventually worked. Their work spoke well for her. We were not rivals, but part of an extended artistic family. I only wish that i could have afforded to study with Stella as well. Of course, Sandy was a wonderful teacher for me and I had great affection for him. This is a case were a comparison is truly odious.
@thematrixjs
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks mj
@legatofancier
13 жыл бұрын
@anthrobserver - Both Stella & Sandy were both founding members of The Group Theatre. The were close and devoted friends all their lives. They shared virtually the same set of artistic principles. However, their teaching styles were different. Sandy was more technically precise. Stella's great specialties were characterization, style, & script interpretation. Their friend Robert Lewis emphasized working by intention. As much as I loved Sandy, I only wish I could have studied with Stella, too!
@vincenzoattingenti
12 жыл бұрын
grande, grandissima!
@legatofancier
13 жыл бұрын
@strawberrylaralara - It was called "standard stage speech" back in the day. Stella was fluent in Yiddish and Russian, as well as several other languages. She was a remarkably cultivated person.
@oscarumanzor
14 жыл бұрын
excellet video
@pukeachu
13 жыл бұрын
@Plentydelight Amen!!!!
@ActorInPanic
14 жыл бұрын
Stella was certainly not bashing "realistic" acting. I think two things are at work here. First, a frustration that there is a tendency to play things naturalistically ... "real," intimate ... as if the only thing important is that it makes sense. "Yes, I understand what the actor is saying." If you look at John Malkovich's performance in "Death of a Salesman," it makes sense ... but it has no inner size. There is no relationship with the size of the idea.. which was Stella's 2nd pt. Inner size.
@Dous88
15 жыл бұрын
meisner does not focus on repetition. repetition is a tool used for the beginning stages, to provoke honest and truthful reactions. but not focused. anyway, the reason that is the main focus is because a lot of "meisner technique teachers" use it and never expand beyond it, giving it a bad name. in truth, though repetition can be used no matter what stage of your training, it is generally only used in the beginning. and thats it.
@LittleImpaler
14 жыл бұрын
@GeorgeWTush that is what many of my acting teachers say about theatre. Stage you are filling up an area, where as in film you are acting on that small screen the camera sees. In Stage, just because you are filling up an area doesn't mean your acting becomes FAKE, you must stay real, same with carma, you must stay real. Either on Stage or film you must own your part of the stag, own character and be real.
@LittleImpaler
14 жыл бұрын
In Uta Hagen's book, If I remember right. She said British actors were good with their outter techinques where Americans were better with their inner techinque. As both Uta and Adler both saying in their own ways. That most actors who do stage, do not project their voices where you can't hear them, since they have microphones now. Which kills the art of acting on stage.
@miltonjustice
15 жыл бұрын
I think you're missing the point of Stella's comments. What she is saying is that American actors don't have size. And by size she's not talking about big voices or big presentations. She's talking about inner size. The British comment came out of a time (early 80's) when everyone assumed that British actors were better than American actors. She was answering a question before it was asked. As to Meisner and Adler. They were close friends. Believed much the same about acting. Different approach.
@atgny
14 жыл бұрын
That is very close to Mesiner's def of acting , I think they had diff ways of putting the same statement.
@atgny
13 жыл бұрын
@legatofancier I am aware thanks, I am making an observation, nothing said was ment to be taken as negative or disreguard them as remarkable people. Simply an observation !!!
@savedfaves
7 жыл бұрын
Before British actors took over Hollywood.
@MarcoBonechi
6 жыл бұрын
british actors still are bad. it's the others that got worse.
@MrLippman
14 жыл бұрын
@gregdance1: British much?
@Dous88
15 жыл бұрын
she wasn't knocking them, just saying it was different. she said some good stuff about the brits
@TheCaptainmarvell
10 жыл бұрын
I think i misunderstood, can someone clarify? I took this to meaning she thought British actors couldn't play this part - and thus worse than american actors? Also what was she saying about being "nice" in a role is wrong?
@rosskugman
10 жыл бұрын
She was commenting on the times. At the time British actors were very opposed to this kind of acting. They thought acting was simple, technical, straightforward, and a little shallow if you ask me. NOWADAYS the UK has adopted these techniques and ideals and if anything some of the best modern actors in film and theatre come from there (a couple prime examples would be Daniel Day-Lewis, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart etc). Their look on the arts has changed drastically, and there are fewer British actors going into acting for the sake of fame and glamour whereas in America that is current. American acting has currently descended into a base form where most view acting as either too simple or the IT'S ALL ABOUT ME effect which means the acting lies in you and your memories and your past and nothing to do with the script at hand. However there are very few successful modern day American actors who take either of those approaches (examples like Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Paul Dano).
@calliclessoixantequinze5256
9 жыл бұрын
***** hey there. i'm not english. my ears sux. can anyone help me? what does she say : an idea in language that is not .... ?
@maximillion17
15 жыл бұрын
poor form stella, england has produced sum of the best theater actors in the world. look up 'sanford miesner'...now that is actor training.
@Dous88
13 жыл бұрын
@legatofancier agreed?
@calliclessoixantequinze5256
9 жыл бұрын
hey there. i'm not english. my ears sux. can anyone help me? what does she say : an idea in language that is not .... ?
@Archietrex
8 жыл бұрын
+Callicles soixante quinze Iambic pentameter
@greenspringvalley
8 жыл бұрын
I looked it up....amazingly same as it sounds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter
@Dous88
14 жыл бұрын
who said ANYTHING about meisner being better than stella? dont read what you want to read to provoke some petty internet arguement. i wouldnt every say anything so stupid. they were both fantastic, and yeah meisner and stella were very similar. in fact she taught him some stuff. i would be the first to say so. so no need for all the insults buddy.
@AtLastOnTheGround
14 жыл бұрын
I don't understand -- Is she bashing realistic acting in the theater, or is she encouraging it?
@swannavon
16 жыл бұрын
I don't think her perception of British actors is accurate. Or perhaps is just dated. I've seen plenty of actors with beautiful size on stage in England.
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