SRS-Portland Presents:
Method Acting
Taught by professional on-set acting coach,
Scott Rogers.
Method Acting is the most misunderstood acting technique in the world. Much of what you read on the internet about it is WRONG. You hear the phrase “very Method” used on set sometimes, to describe an actor’s performance – usually when they’re overacting or throwing tantrums on set or “living as the character” off-camera too. In reality, none of these things have anything to do with the Method. Nothing. Method Acting has been called everything from “brilliant” to “dangerous” (and I believe it can be both)…
BUT, there’s a reason that it’s still one of the most frequently used acting techniques in Hollywood.
And, there’s a reason that celebrities and working actors that use Method every day on set, include some of the most dynamic actors of our time: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchette, Marlon Brando, Adrien Brody, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Chastain, Glenn Close, Bradley Cooper, Daniel Day-Lewis, James Dean, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, Hilary Swank, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Anne Hathaway, Dustin Hoffman, Heath Ledger, Matthew McConaughey, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Gary Oldman, Al Pacino, Joaquin Phoenix, Christoph Waltz, etc…
This class will teach you to use some of the tools of Method Acting, in your work. To help you really FEEL the required emotion, reliably, take after take, without depending on other actors, and more powerfully than any technique you’ve ever used. Nothing works as well as Method, when shooting the Close-up. We’ll use Lecture, Q&A, and exercises during this course.
A few of the actors coached by Scott include:
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- On set coaching Jason Momoa
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- On set with Rutger Hauer
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- On set coaching Christopher McDonald (Shooter McGavin)
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- On set coaching Brooke Burns (Shallow Hal, Dog Eat Dog)
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- Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows
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- Pat Morita
About the instructor:
Scott is one of the most experienced acting coaches in the country. He served as acting coach for 20th Century Fox Studios under a multi-year, exclusive contract, coaching actors for television projects. He has coached principal actors, for more than 3000 hours on the sets of motion pictures and national television shows. He was the full-time, on-set, acting coach for the Fox-TV series North Shore and was previously the full-time acting coach for the hit TV show Baywatch, where he first coached actor Jason Momoa. Scott went on to coach Momoa on 44 episodes of two national tv-series, a tv movie, and some auditions (when he still auditioned for roles!)
Working regularly as an Equity theatre director, in the early 1990s, Scott began to get hired by actors, studios, and production companies to Direct and/or Coach, hundreds of actors, including: Pat Morita (Karate Kid), Donna Mills (Knotts Landing), Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Charles Grodin, Richard Kline, Vincent Gardenia, Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, John Astin, Denver Pyle, Tony Bennett & many others.
Scott’s clients include series-regulars on shows like LOST, North Shore, and Baywatch and actors appearing in: Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum PI, ER, 50 First Dates, Pearl Harbor, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Rundown, Midway, Blue Crush, Lilo & Stich, Grimm, Portlandia, Shrill, The Librarians, and many others.
Scott is a 40+ year member of Actors Equity Association, AFTRA and the Screen Actors Guild (now SAG-AFTRA), where he sat on the National Board of Directors for 13 years (and served on the National Executive Committee for 6 years). Scott still serves on several National Committees including SAGindie, PRC (Agency Relations) and serving as Chair of the SAG-AFTRA National Conservatory Committee – charged with providing support for the continued training of professional actors across the country. He’s taught acting to hundreds of actors, in classes across the country, from Los Angeles to Florida, from Seattle to San Francisco, from Washington D.C. to Guam (yes, Guam!). He has auditioned more than 15,000 actors for various productions and his clients appear on television, film, & on Broadway, daily.
