{"id":3986,"date":"2012-10-23T22:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2012-10-23T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:48:52","slug":"what-is-good-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/what-is-good-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"What is good acting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be able to give you a clear answer to that but I think we can all agree that the following example is a really fine piece of acting starring child prodigee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001794\/\">Henry Thomas<\/a> during an audition for 1982 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083866\/\">Spielberg&#8217;s E.T<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video just surfaced on the internet at the same time as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/culture\/henry-thomas-et-interview-13541489\">interview for Esquire magazine<\/a> where he explains how he approached the audition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I read a scene from some early version of the script, and then I was asked to do an improvisation. I think the gist of the improv was, &#8220;You found someone, and they&#8217;re going to take them away from you, and it&#8217;s your friend, and you really don&#8217;t want your friend to go away.&#8221; So I started crying, and really going for it I guess.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/culture\/henry-thomas-et-interview-13541489\">http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/culture\/henry-thomas-et-interview-13541489<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/16\/henry-thomas-et-audition-video_n_1970741.html\"> Huffington Post<\/a>, legend has it that Thomas drew his inspiration for the scene from a deceased family dog.<\/p>\n<p>Okay kid, you got the job!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hV0vYQcmWK0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be able to give you a clear answer to that but I think we can all agree that the following example is a really fine piece of acting starring child prodigee Henry Thomas during an audition for 1982 Spielberg&#8217;s E.T. The video just surfaced on the internet at the same time as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[61,260,356,415],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acting","category-animation","tag-acting-2","tag-e-t","tag-henry-thomas","tag-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}