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

Listen to understand how writers can craft more compelling material for actors (and how they approach scripts)

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.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes.

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FILMS

• AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (2013) — (w) Tracy Letts (d) John Wells
• PREDESTINATION (2014) — (w) Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

SCRIPTS

• Study the script: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (2013) — Tracy Letts

LINKS

• IMDB: Sarah Snook
• IMDB: PREDESTINATION
• YouTube: USC School of Cinematic Arts: James L. Brooks and Larry Moss at USC (YouTube)
• Read: Wikipedia: Practical Aesthetics
• Read: Wikipedia: The GOTE Method
• Read: Directing Actors by Judith Weston
• Read: The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques by Judith Weston
• Read: Goodreads: ACTIONS: The Actors Thesauraus by Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams
• Listen: ScriptNotes: Ep 134 - So Many Questions & transcript (discussed John Ridley & 12 Years A Slave)
• Read: ScriptNotes: Ep 134 - So Many Questions & transcript (discussed John Ridley & 12 Years A Slave)

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