Acting: Crying on cue Meisner Emotional Prep Technique

You finally made me understand emotional preparation and how to do it when you have a script . Thank you!

Damn, thank you for your sharing your vulnerability and teaching! Acting is brave work!

Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏

That was really helpful! I've wondered a lot about this exercise and you gave a great example there! Thanks!

Thank you Byron. That was very delicate of you and showed just how this works. Much appreciation. ❤

This is the most helpful video I've watched on emotional preparation!! Thank you so so much!

Very helpful! Thank you!!

Thank you 😊

Thank you for this. I’d love to see your emotional prep for happy and angry.

Thank you

Thank you so much the clarity is what I been needing

FINALLY! an actual technique that shows a technique on how to prepare not just a youtube video showing the repetition technique. Do you have any Meisner tips for learning lines and having them stick? And I guess with this crying on cue video.. we can apply the same technique with other emotions? anger, joy etc? Thanks bro, that was really helpful:)

it would take way too long to go into it, but what's usually said about Method acting is so very off base, and wrong. And the emotional prep in meisner is pretty much the same as Emotional Recall. Sense memory is different. I've studied/worked with various techniques. Ive done Meisner, altho didn't study with him, one of his disciples. But I did study with Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Michael Shurtlieff,and many others in late 70's. Meisner's repetition is profound in it's simplicity and truthfulness, but there is more to it than that. His 'use the imagination instead of real life' was just to try and be different from Strasberg, as they didn't care for each other. But it's no different. I would say Strasberg was probably the most complete over Meisner, Adler,etc., as he included everything. For some reason, they're never mentioned, just his emotional recall, which isn't even true. Too long to explain. But it's not about going back to any 'traumatic' real life events. That's a total falsehood. Strasberg was the most complete because you used everything, had different exercises for different things. Had sense memory, which is just getting in touch with your senses, emotional recall, lots of relaxation exercises, animal exercises (to help create a character, and find the primal in the human), song and dance - which he would do after lots of internal work, he'd have them do a scene or monologue singing and dancing it to find the external in words and body. He would do a lot of improvisations. Not 2nd city type just a scenario, objectives and a scene with no script. The play and then movie Hatful of Rain came out of an improvisation in one of his classes. He emphasized there is no one way, to try everything, the point is to create the greatest performance one can do. Ok, getting too long. But can't say Strasberg was the best, nor Meisner, but Strasberg was the most complete, as he didn't adhere to one thing. Meisners only focus was on listening, reacting, being truthful, which are important but not the only thing

thanks :))

Hello Byron, thank you very much for your video! I just wondering if you could clarify (and please excuse me if this is too personal of a question) but was the example you used in the video not a memory but a scenario that you invented in your imagination? Thank you and best regards, Ben

Hey, great video. Could you explain a little more about saying the partners lines during the preparation? And any information on how you would approach a script analysis? Would you break the scene up into doings/beats and how would you go about personalising these?

My dream is to become an actress. I am 14 almost 15. I can say that i am good with acting and that stuff, but..I am from Serbia and I wanna be an American actress... Do you have any advice for me, how to do it and so on... Btw nice video!

Is there a way I can do online coaching with you?

Does anyone find that these videos teach you more than 3 years of drama school did

Where did you study?