From Screen to Stage
Scarlett Johansson in a ‘View from the Bridge’
Theatre has for a long time hired Famous Screen Actors to bring in the crowds to its performances, and does even more so during this bad economic time. At the moment people don’t have the spare cash to go see a Broadway show on a whim, so to make the shows more appealing, our favourite stars are treading the boards.
The trouble is can they hack it on the big stage??!! Please respond by commenting; I’d love to hear your views.
I’ve seen a few famous people tackling some stage roles. If they started in film and had not been trained in theatre, then I found their performances were mediocre. It felt like they were still in their world of film and television, with smaller performances. It was if they’d forgotten that a camera wasn’t following them around to catch the tiniest facial expression or body language.
I have yet to see Scarlett in action. However I was talking to someone in the profession and they said her performance was very wooden. The thing with stage is that you have so much freedom — more than you do on film. Could this have been Scarlett’s problem?!
Jude Law in ‘Hamlet’
Jude Law did a great job in Hamlet. He was so free and in his body; however he started his career on the stage.
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I find that the theatre is the epitome of acting. Not only are screen actors wooden on stage, if they didn’t start off there, but these actors are also much more pleasing to the eye when on camera if they have that experience and training from the stage. As you said there is more freedom on stage and the seasoned actor learns to take that and run with it- to make the character their own, not the director’s. A screen actor who can learn how to do this as a seasoned stage actor does, seems to have a more developed and unique personna to their character and a larger deviation from role to role.
Thx for your share. I like this article.
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