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Academy Award winner and celebrated acting teacher Milton Justice invites you into his weekly acting class, based on his years of study with the legendary Stella Adler. I Don’t Need an Acting Class delves deep into the craft of acting, breaks down concepts, tools and techniques, explores endless possibilities and offers you a foundation on which to build a solid, dependable process. Produced by Walker Vreeland.
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- 5 days ago16 min
The Character Is Not You
How do you respond to the circumstances as the character? This week, we explore how script analysis helps us discover the character’s nature—and turn that understanding into specific behavior. We discuss how a profession shapes a person, what observing others can teach us, and Stella Adler’s exercise of taking the character into situations outside the play. The work begins with recognizing how you and the character are alike, where you differ, and what you need to build.
- 1 weeks ago16 min
Working With A Partner
What happens when an actor really looks at the person they’re speaking to? This week, I use Edgar Degas’s painting L’Absinthe to help the class build a relationship with a partner. We begin with what we notice about the woman in the painting, then explore how those observations can become a personal attitude toward her—and an impulse to speak.One actor’s response takes us somewhere unexpected. Along the way, we talk about giving ourselves room to explore, letting the partner affect us, and finding the difference between describing a relationship and experiencing one.
- 2 weeks ago16 min
The Play Is Not in the Words
This week’s episode is a little different. Using the opening monologue from Jack Heifner’s A Wide Place in the Road, Milton invites the class into the kind of conversation actors might have at the first rehearsal of a play.Rather than beginning with the character, the dialogue, or how to deliver the monologue, the class begins with a larger question: What is the play about?The discussion moves from a small East Texas town where nothing seems to change to questions of comfort, stagnation, the fear of leaving, and the tragedy of unlived lives. It is an exploration of how actors can look beyond the words on the page to discover the ideas underneath them—and how those ideas begin to give the words meaning.
- 3 weeks ago12 min
The Scene Starts Before You Speak
Recorded while working with an actress in a class in Paris, this episode explores one of the most common problems in acting: actors don’t start acting until they start talking.Beginning with the discovery that a character is impulsive, we explore how to turn analysis into experience—imagining the character’s behavior outside the play, creating specific circumstances, and beginning to live as the character before the first line is spoken.Because the scene doesn’t begin when you start talking. It begins before you speak.
- Sep 1, 202615 min
Don't Talk Away Your Talent
This week, we explore the actor’s preparation: how to get beyond vague ideas and find something specific that actually feeds you; why we need to shop more widely for choices instead of settling for the first thing that works; and what happens when you return to a choice that worked before.We also look at repetition—how to do the work again without trying to recreate the previous result, how preparation can become shorter once you’ve truly built something, and how to recognize when you’ve done enough.Because sometimes actors find exactly what they need—and then, because they don’t trust it, they keep going until they’ve talked away their talent.
- Aug 25, 202618 min
It's Enough
This week's episode is about learning to trust that acting can be built a little at a time – and recognizing when what you've built is already enough.
- Aug 18, 202617 min
More Kick Ass Choices
Picking up where last week’s episode left off, we dig a little deeper into what it actually takes to make a great acting choice.What makes a choice come alive? In this episode, Milton works with actors on cutting through the explanations, descriptions and unnecessary details that can kill a moment. Stop trying so hard to perform. Stop decorating the work, stop explaining it, stop trying to be impressive—and get to the thing that actually brings you to life.
- Aug 11, 202617 min
Kick Ass Choices
What does it mean to make a great acting choice? This week, we challenge the current obsession with being “authentic” and look instead at what Stella Adler demanded: choices that are appropriate to the play, that require the actor to pay a price, and—importantly—that make good theater.From A Doll’s House to NCIS, we explore why actors have to understand the world and form of the material they’re working on, and why even the simplest line can become compelling when the actor brings something specific and personal to it.Because ultimately, acting isn’t about being accurate or safe. It’s about shopping for choices until you find the one that makes you think: Oh, I love that.
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Academy Award winner and celebrated acting teacher Milton Justice invites you into his weekly acting class, based on his years of study with the legendary Stella Adler. I Don’t Need an Acting Class delves deep into the craft of acting, breaks down concepts, tools and techniques, explores endless possibilities and offers you a foundation on which to build a solid, dependable process. Produced by Walker Vreeland.
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