Colin Salmon has revealed that he has found it hard to get acting roles in the UK.
The British actor - who has recently appeared in Us shows 24: Live Another Day and Arrow - explained why many UK stars have chosen to find work in America.
He told ITV's Loose Women: "It's been really hard here in Britain for actors and therefore we've had to up our game.
"I think we have incredible voice coaches now because it's all muscle memory. We are trained a different way. It's not like we're imagining it, we know, we're specific. We know the areas."
He continued: "I've worked with Cicely Berry from the Royal Shakespeare Company, the best voice coach in the world, and Paul Robeson, so we have all the backstory.
"You've got the young actors - I'm about to do Musketeers - and the young guys on that, the discipline level is another level.
The British actor - who has recently appeared in Us shows 24: Live Another Day and Arrow - explained why many UK stars have chosen to find work in America.
He told ITV's Loose Women: "It's been really hard here in Britain for actors and therefore we've had to up our game.
"I think we have incredible voice coaches now because it's all muscle memory. We are trained a different way. It's not like we're imagining it, we know, we're specific. We know the areas."
He continued: "I've worked with Cicely Berry from the Royal Shakespeare Company, the best voice coach in the world, and Paul Robeson, so we have all the backstory.
"You've got the young actors - I'm about to do Musketeers - and the young guys on that, the discipline level is another level.
- 5/21/2014
- Digital Spy
The RSC's legendary voice coach Cicely Berry has taught everyone from Sean Connery to Samuel L Jackson. But can she fix Laura Barnett's diction?
Cicely Berry is not impressed. I'm sitting on the floor, with my back against her legs, jiggling up and down while attempting to perform the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy from Macbeth. The last time I said these words aloud, I was about 12 years old and wearing a school uniform. And I certainly wasn't bouncing up and down at the time.
"You're not moving enough!" says Berry, the Royal Shakespeare Company's voice director. I bounce harder. "That's better! Can you feel the resonance?" I can. My voice has grown deeper, the words shake the pit of my stomach. "Creeps in this petty pace from day to day!" Suddenly, I sound like a proper actor. Almost.
Professional actors do this sort of voice exercise all...
Cicely Berry is not impressed. I'm sitting on the floor, with my back against her legs, jiggling up and down while attempting to perform the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy from Macbeth. The last time I said these words aloud, I was about 12 years old and wearing a school uniform. And I certainly wasn't bouncing up and down at the time.
"You're not moving enough!" says Berry, the Royal Shakespeare Company's voice director. I bounce harder. "That's better! Can you feel the resonance?" I can. My voice has grown deeper, the words shake the pit of my stomach. "Creeps in this petty pace from day to day!" Suddenly, I sound like a proper actor. Almost.
Professional actors do this sort of voice exercise all...
- 7/24/2011
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
When asked what her goals are for her students, vocal coach Nancy Mayans enthusiastically replies, "Expressing yourself can be fun and vibrant and empowering; that's a big part of my work. To have a wide range, a wonderful flexibility, and a variety of resonance allows your voice to express so much more of who you are, not only as an artist but as a person." Mayans teaches voice, speech, and classical text at the William Esper Studio, as well as coaching actors and singers privately."I want a full-bodied voice—I mean that quite specifically," she says. "I use a lot of Linklater technique and Cicely Berry for text and some Skinner for diction, but I'm interested in having the entire body vibrate with sound. So there is a big physical component of my warm-up. It's not enough to have your diaphragm working nicely and your tongue and your lips.
- 6/30/2011
- by help@backstage.com ()
- backstage.com
For any actor overlooked and underappreciated in his or her early days, take heart. Patrick Stewart has tales for you. Bypassed by the Royal Shakespeare Company twice while a young actor, he finally won the chance to understudy there and became a core member years later. Through the help of others, through his own perseverance, he became the noted star of today, earning the admiration and respect of actors of all generations. But he started humbly—in life and as an actor. He eventually garnered supporting roles on television, diligently building a résumé of fascinating characters, from the darkly silent Karla in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" through the scheming Sejanus in "I, Claudius." Then came his leading roles, creating Captain Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," headlining his own series "Eleventh Hour," and playing Professor Xavier in the vast "X-Men" franchise. He has meanwhile been a gift to the theater,...
- 4/21/2010
- backstage.com
It's no accident that Andy Goldberg offers his courses under the umbrella title Shakespeare Gym. He'll tell you his philosophy "is that actors can receive deeper and more profound understanding" of Shakespearean text "through physical exploration."In other words, Goldberg isn't interested in simply getting Bard wannabes to speak the poetry and prose; he wants it to flow through the entire body. "Often in Shakespeare," he says, "people talk about 'acting from the neck up' in a derogatory sense. I want the words to come organically from below the navel, so that it's not a cerebral process but a physical process. Ultimately, it's both."Goldberg disseminates his theory through two courses he gives several times a year: a beginners course and an advanced course. In love with Shakespeare since taking a course at Stanford called Shakespeare Through Performance, he recalls with a laugh, "I discovered I was a terrible actor...
- 11/18/2009
- backstage.com
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