DZ-14: Writing For Actors with Succession’s Sarah Snook

How can we make our screenwriting more appealing to Actors?

In this episode, Chas and Stu are joined by a very special guest, SARAH SNOOK – star of Succession, Predestination, Jessabelle, and Oddball, amongst many others – to discuss ACTING and it’s relationship with WRITING.

We focus our analysis on two scenes from AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, a screenplay that started life as a Pulitzer Prize winning play, and whose writer – Tracy Letts – is a successful actor in his own right. But, as usual, we ice-skate between a whole range of topics,  including what attracts actors to a script, writing realistic characters, how actors analyse scenes, character spines & objectives, and the importance of hugs.

LINKS

• AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts (we analyse pp 27-35)
• IMDB: Sarah Snook
• IMDB: PREDESTINATION
• USC School of Cinematic Arts: James L. Brooks and Larry Moss at USC (YouTube)
• Eric Sean McGiven: List of Intentions
• ActorsHub: Objectives & SuperObjectives: An Acting Approach
• Wordplayer: The Task
• Wikipedia: Practical Aesthetics
• Wikipedia: The GOTE Method
• Goodreads: Directing Actors by Judith Weston
• Goodreads: The Film Director’s Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques by Judith Weston
• Goodreads: ACTIONS: The Actors Thesauraus by Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams
• ScriptNotes: Ep 134 – So Many Questions & transcript (discussed John Ridley & 12 Years A Slave)
• Nerdist Podcast: Michael Sheen

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