When mom auditioned there, she brought my brother, sister and I, but it was only once or twice. This was around 1958 or 1959, and I was only five years old. I am pretty certain that Lee discouraged mom from bringing us, he probably didn't want children wandering around the place while classes were in session. I still don't know whether mom passed her auditions. She probably did, she was a great actress, but chose raising us three children over pursuing an acting career. The exterior and interior shots of the Studio building in this story bring back a flood of memories. We were living in a walk- up "railroad flat" in Brooklyn, mom would take the IRT to Manhattan to classes. One day as autumn was approaching, mom packed up the place and took us all back to Buffalo, never letting us know whether she was accepted as a member. As children, we weren't concerned with such adult affairs, all we knew is that we got our mommy back. Mom passed in 2009 at the age of seventy seven. She became a businesswoman, but also had time to do a tiny bit of acting with two troupes in Buffalo.
Ive always appreciated the fact, that the "Actors Studio",has provided actors space to work together, to develop their skills in an environment where actors can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles.
This is the kind of story we will never see on Fox News. I don't understand why they concentrate their subject matter on areas that will anger, frustrate and divide us. These insights into the Actors' Studio helped me understand just a little bit more the WHY of my admiration of certain films and the actors in them. This school teaches one form of acting... but it is a form which can be customized to whatever the actor student wants it to be. Pretty marvelous when you think about it. They can learn the way they want to learn. Thanks, CBS, for continuing to bring us stories like this one.
Joe, the reason that Fox Opinion concentrates on Anger, Frustration, and Division is that that's their business model for making Profits. Hopefully they crossed enough legal lines in pursuit of those profits that Dominion and Smartmatic can wreck that business model.
@@rpmhart As opposed to CNN & MSNBC? Get real. If you folks are commenting on Fox after watching this rather interesting piece about acting, who's angry?
Wait.. What? The obsession of people to try to turn everything into partisanship is mind boggling. In whose mind does someone watch this and say.. “Fox News doesn’t do stories like this.” Yeah. No sht Sherlock. That’s not what they do. That’s like going to a baseball game and complaining that no one‘s playing football🤦🏾♂️😂
@@jveebklyn1644 - Not obsessed. Something in this story hit me as to the honesty of the actors involved with it. It made me think of WHY there aren't more stories like it on broadcast TV. The reason is profit motive. Stories like this aren't exciting enough to generate large audiences. I've been a fan of CBS Sunday Morning for several decades now. It sets my brain up for what's to come in the next week. Fox News does not do that. It tells you what to think... even if it's a lie. Ol' Rupert's failure to stop his anchors from lying tells you that the "fish rots from the head".
How awesome it would be to sit in on some of the "sessions" as an outsider. Especially back in the early days when Pacino was cutting his teeth, or Brando or any of the other big names that started out there. Cool.
I loved the INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO series on BRAVO. An hour with all these famous actors, actresses and directors was always fascinating. You learned so much about the person. I don’t know how many episodes are on RU-vid. They’re certainly worth looking for.
Al became a self parody years ago, but James Lipton did an invaluable job with his interview show of Actor's Studio graduates. RIP. The example session was intriguing.
Yes very strange…..no one would know of that place if not for James Lipton…..oh but they made sure to feature the virtue signaling mask wearers and the vapid arrogant narcissists that have done great acting but are terrible humans…..perhaps the very best representation of that cesspool is Will Feral on SNL
A very good friend made audio recordings of Lee Strasberg discussing his theatrical scenes at the Actors Studio in Los Angeles and New York. We went to Strasberg's memorial service in Santa Monica, California either in Spring or Summer 1982.
There's a few famous names, like every school. But only roughly 0.5% of the people who have been there actually become huge stars. When James Lipton was there for decades, Bradley Cooper was the only actor who made it big.
@@lewstone5430 probably. It's like American Idol. A few make it big. And the rest end up elsewhere. Sometimes they're backup singers, songwriters, singing teachers, etc. But some also just get regular a 9-5 job.
My mom became a businesswoman after leaving the Studio, but she also did a tiny bit of acting with two troupes in Buffalo. Just having attended looks good on a resume'.
A couple have also commented on this, but it IS noticeable that Marlon Brando's name is prominent in this segment, BUT HE WAS NEVER part of the Actors Studio...his training came from Stella Adler, who taught the Stanislavsky Method that Actors Studio borrowed from so heavily. To put him at the front of this would suggest to the viewer that he was one who learned and worked there. But in truth he thought Lee Strasberg was an egotistical idiot.
Marlon said he never went to the actors studio. Thats just a myth. He said the only reason they keep saying it is because he went to adler and shes a woman
Burt Bacharach died recently. And increasingly we see familiar faces that have all the marks of passing time. Aging is a reality. For many of us a new phenomenon. But it is important to accept, even embrace, the finality with which we all get to the next stages in our lives. Doing it gracefully, and gratefully is our best choice.
Beautiful segment. Loved watching James Lipton on BRAVO with Inside the Actors Studio and learning about the actors and their craft. Mr Lipton will be missed. I hope they continue with the show.
They always get this wrong. The "Method." There are two types: The Lee Strasberg "imaginary stimuli/your emotional memory" (Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn) and the Stella Adler "learn as much about your character as you can" (Robert DeNiro, Daniel Day Lewis). It all goes back to Stanislavsky.
The Method is what Strasberg called his interpretation of Stanislavsky. That’s it. And De Niro and Ellen Burstyn studied with both Adler and Strasberg.
This is literally every drama school. I don't get the hype. And every drama school in the world can boast famous graduates. That's literally what they do to get people to sign up. The only thing that would make it special to me is if this is a place exclusively designed for already famous people to have continual training. Then yes, that's cool. Bc it's hard to be able to practice when there's no privacy. But since it's supposedly just a school, then 🤷🏾♀️ meh. It just seems like every drama school out there. The only interesting thing might be that this place might take untrained actors and help them learn how to practice? I'm sorry. I legit don't get the hype.
Personally, I used to watch "inside the Actors Studio" from the past on TV. But the series itself had done episodes where I had regarded them as MISTAKES. Like where NON-ACTORS such as Sir Elton John, Barbara Walters, and probably others from years ago, were the particular examples. I even remembered FILMMAKERS like Francis Ford Coppola who were the guests on that series as well. In addition, I was also outraged when the late filmmaker, and all-around SNITCH, Elia Kazan, was one of the early founders of The Actors Studio. At least, I am glad that some of the great actors of the past, like Marlon Brando, HATED and NEVER forgave Kazan for his betrayal of some of his colleagues from Hollywood and elsewhere in America, too.
He did help to popularize the Actors Studio as a tv host, but he wasn’t a graduate and although trained, he wasn’t a great actor or writer in his own right. So in terms of being a guiding and creative force in the life of the Actors Studio, he was not.
Today my husband would have been 62 years old. The last movie we saw together was gran torino. He loved movies and would think it was cool the Oscar's were on his birthday tonight.
Look at Ellen Burstyn, still hungry and teaching in her 91st year!! She is a top notch 😉 actress/talent and taking lessons from her is something I know those actors will cherish the rest of their lives 🤗🤗🎥🎥👍👍😭😭❤️❤️
Glad she said ... Actress...&. Owned the word ... Not saying actor & wanting to be the same as a Man....... just my opinion...The method .goes back to the late 1939 s..thing of John Garfield ..,..
I always enjoyed the Inside the actors studio! Always fresh. James Lipton was so cool! I love all the old classic, but Oscars is still so white!!! 90% I don't watch any award shows. They should stop airing these award shows!!!
They are so pretentious. Lee Strasberg was a grift. I was there in that building once and the feeling I got was overwhelming. Lee's picture was on a wall. Preposterous.
Sad to see so many of these talented artists leaving the world in the last few years. The new generations’ idolization of social media “influencers” as opposed to the true legends we grew up with, only serves to illustrate just how shallow and toxic today’s culture has spiraled.
I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along. John Malkovich
LOL.... Marlon Brando was not a great actor, and the method is sometimes useless and even a problem on set for directors and crew, even that "Stella" moment is actually as fake as possible...., even famous exquisite, excellent actresses like Merry Streep DO NOT use the method... the method is for people without creativity or natural talent, actors who cannot easily become the character from one moment to the next and therefore must stay in it, also for actors without real technique and so they need to live the character in order to perform it.
