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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> Acting: Anger & Jealousy. How to express it?Question: Acting: Anger & Jealousy!. How to express it!? I have acting class and I'm playing a girl who is angry and hurt and jealous because her friend keeps dumping her and hanging out with her boyfriend instead!.
I'm not an angry person and it's hard for me to express the anger like my teacher wants me to!. The character kind of has a huge blow up while venting to her friend (about her other friend) and then she realizes that she is sounding jealous and crazy, and tones it down!. Got any tips!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hey well I have the same problem because my friends say I'm "always happy" but I'm in my theatre class so I know some tips to act angry! *Show that your angry! For example throw papers around, pound your fist on the table, stomp your foot, or walk away angry and jealous! *Next, facial expressions! If you don't look angry or jealous, you won't sell it! So frown a bit, look away from your friend, and cross your arms while speaking in a tense, stern voice!. *Lastly think of something angry or something that makes you jealous! If you like someone but you see someone dating him then express that jealousy!. If you are angry at your friends or family because of something then just let it out! Just think of one thing that'll make you angry then you automatically be a great angry actress! So those are my tips for being angry!Www@QuestionHome@Com Try doin something physical that will evoke anger during run throughs or on your own!. For instance, run your lines while pounding your fist on a table - the physical action may influence the anger in your voice!. As you get a handle on the anger thing in speaking, lose the fist pounding (though try to keep the "angry tension" that the fist pounding as induced in your body!. You may want to find a place in the dialogue where you can "hit something" or otherwise find a physical outlet for your anger!. Www@QuestionHome@Com The easiest tip to give you since you have trouble evoking anger straight from your personality is to use this technique I learned in an acting class once!. (i'll do my best to describe it without demonstrating haha) If you really spit out your words and enunciate them while getting louder, you will give the illusion of being angry!. It's a good way to create a physiological response!. If this doesn't make a lot of sense, sorry! It's much easier to explain through demonstration!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |