Spike Lee: Why Actors Are F*cked Up

Spike Lee: Why Actors Are F*cked Up

Hollywood has done something in plain sight and everyone is eating it up. All seemed right in the world. For years and years film and TV have moved farther and farther away from the actor to the pretty face, and sometimes the pretty face actor. Special effects and...

Are Actors Good Liars?

The question “Are good actors good liars?” bothers me a great deal. Stepping beyond the fact that I am an actor, the implication that a profession exists entirely in falsehood is baffling. Are we as a culture willing to believe actors live to pretend, and...

Act(ing) Your Age or the Part

Social structure demands that we act our age. In Japan I was told that at some undefined, though understood, time in life ice cream became a thing of the past. Oddly enough the experience I had reflected that sentiment. In the USA it can be heard on the playgrounds,...