Forgive the visual pun but I simply have to say it. There’s no way to act in a film without getting your hands dirty (or bloody as the case may be.) I recently acted the lead in my friend’s short horror/romantic comedy genre-straddler The Courtship of Ronson Crumb and it ruined me emotionally and physically for hours at a time.
Guys, let me start off by saying that I do not claim to be an actor. I have never studied acting. I’m not even sure I know what “acting” is. For a long time I believed what an actor friend of mine told me: Acting is lying. To be a good actor you have to be a good liar. Well, it didn’t take long into the shoot for me to realize that this, like the Abominable Snowman before it, was horse feathers.
From my limited experience playing a delusional psychopath I have come to the conclusion that acting is not lying. Acting is far more similar to telling the truth.
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It’s happening again… (vague Twin Peaks reference)
After a long period of active inactivity, which is the kind of inactivity where I’m killing myself behind the scenes to get things done but I have nothing yet to show for it, things are, well, happening. Dare I say actively.
We’ve shot all but two scenes for the short horror movie I’m starring in and I’ve heard rumors of a February 2010 premiere (though I feel like a goon calling it a premiere since it’s not a feature.) I’ve never acted in anything that wasn’t just me goofing off before. The experience was… oddly exhilarating. Once you’ve acted a thing, in my case serial killing, you carry it with you ever more. Not in a traumatic way, but the emotions were so real for me that I feel like I really did kill and disembowel those girls. On an emotional level there was no real difference between playing at the act and doing it for real. I felt oddly aggressive and confident coming out of that weekend’s shooting. Actually, the phrase “I am the Bengal Tiger and I will eat your fucking heart” just kept popping into my brain at the strangest times.
I can’t wait till people see this movie because it was a lot of fun to shoot. We have a great cast and crew, and I’m going to miss our shenanigans.
In other news… F is for Film series 2 started. Episodes for Doubt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Twilight are out now with two more on the way. It’s such a huge leap in production values and yet it still has that “mommy I made this” feel of the first series. Damn it, just go watch these are some of my favorite things that I’ve done ever, and we’ve all worked super hard on them. Please comment on the F website and tell us what you think.
