Let me start this story exactly where it begins. My best friend Kimberly had been taking a few different acting classes. I audited them but didn’t spark to any for myself. They seemed cultish. As if the whole thing had to do with admiring the teacher. The students were like followers. And I didn’t like all the “acting” exercises.
I remember watching Arnold Schwarzenegger do a scene in Eric Morris’s acting class. Arnold was then just starting out and known only as a body builder.
Kimberly guided me to a class deep in the Valley. Though you could take the same class in Point Dume at the teacher’s house, I chose the Valley. The class was taught by a famous acting teacher named Jeff Corey. (more…)