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Just so ya know, in the next 14 days, I plan on having the longest, leanest dancers legs with only 5 minutes exercise per day. Yup! That’s 300 seconds of these leg moves a day and I’m probably [...]

Oh how things are changing, huh? Lately, so much is being cast off of tape. Which is great I think. We don’t always have a choice, but let’s suppose you do. Which is better – to go into the [...]

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was lucky enough to land in the extraordinary care of acting coach, Warner Loughlin. She was different than the others. She didn’t yell at you or cut you down [...]

This is a little mindset trick that I’ve found to be very helpful in so many situations. I use it when something is so annoyingly distracting that it keeps me from accomplishing the task at hand. [...]

A crazily talented actor that I coach ran into a little problem on set the other day. Here’s how it went: Wardrobe approached him right before a scene and said, “Hey, can you just watch your [...]

Have you ever said, “I’m scared I won’t remember my lines, so I memorize them right away.” And then later said, “I feel like I’m stuck in my head during a scene.” Well one of those things can [...]

Woooo! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a brilliant take every time? We put so much pressure on ourselves to be AMAAAZING all the way through a scene, that we actually beat ourselves up if there [...]

           Be prepared. Be the hardest working person in the room. Stay humble. Don’t take rejection personally. Have fun. Throw your sides in the trash after an audition. Be kind to the crew, [...]

“What did you love about that?” At the Studio, this is a question we often ask our actors right after a scene. “What did you love about that?” Recently, somebody asked me why we do that. Well, [...]

Okay don’t ever say I said that. It’ll be our little secret! But here are some thoughts on that… If you’ve ever finished a scene, and been just a tad disappointed that an overwhelming [...]