Name: Helen Mirren Teaches Acting | Official Trailer
Uploaded: 2017-11-27T08:13:53.000Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
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Past simple

The superlative

To-infinitive

in my profession of acting, which is to walk as yourself.

I have ever actually talked about my work in this way.

The first time, in fact, I remember seeing drama at all

was when my mother took me to an amateur production of Hamlet.

A darkened space with a group of people watching something,

I would like to share some of the ways I work.

You are doing the exact opposite of what acting is about.

Acting is all about what's happening within you.

It doesn't matter what's happening on your face.

A Russian with a bad wig and these glasses--

I knew nothing at all about working in front of a camera.

Now this is what happens just before you do a take.

At this point, you have to cut all this stuff out.

you don't have to start acting straightaway.

between you and that little spot next to the lens.

And many of you will feel it, when suddenly you're

I felt I was on this incredibly powerful force.

But I had the vocal ability, I had the intellectual ability,

The moment when your technique is so deep within you,

that gives you the freedom then to invent, to improvise,

I'm Helen Mirren, and this is my MasterClass.