Article by Adelaide Tsebe
Coffeebreak is a time to unwind and get in touch with actors’ processes. Actor Spaces’ first guest of 2022 was Khanyi Mbau and these are her nuggets of wisdom.
- As an actor forgive yourself for all you’re going through in the character.
- It’s your responsibility as an actor to make sure your character is happy.
- Respect for your character.
- Art imitates life.
- Innocence and ignorance sometimes can save you as an actor.
- Getting into the zone is not for the character, it is asking permission from yourself to be in the character (An Actor’s Prayer).
- If you’re not educated in acting, surround yourself with those who will teach you.
- Intimate scene is the death of an actor, for a character it’s healing.
- As an actor you must deal with what you feel when the time is right.
- Actors in production are crazy people.
- Actors go through mourning when leaving a character.
- It’s important to take a break from one production after another.
- Let the uncomfortableness of a character heal you.
- Have an honest conversation with other actors, it builds connection.
- An actor is selfless.
Catch Coffeebreak every second Sunday on the Actor Spaces Instagram live at 11h00.
