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The How And Why Of Acting Practices With Actor Indira Varma
In this intimate behind-the-scenes conversation with my friend, actor Indira Varma, we get an inside look at her approach to acting and discuss the wonders of the voice in life and death. We also talk a bit about the power of listening onstage, Indy’s abiding love of voiceover & radio, her experience of growing up with parents from different cultures.
Of course, I asked her to share some #BTS and war stories about acting and Game Of Thrones. She also talked about working with Ralph Fiennes and so much more! Fans will get a wonderful sense of Indira, while actors & acting students can experience this as a master class in the how and why of acting practices.
In This Podcast About ‘The How And Why Of Acting Practices With Actor Indira Varma’ You’ll Learn:
- Why breath is so important
- A difficult voice technique used by studios
- BTS about a struggle Indira faced in her recent Netflix show
- The impact of voice in triggering you
- How to act with your complete self so everything you brings a reaction from your audience
- The difference between physical and psychological acting
- Indira’s authentic experience (and impostor syndrome) with radio
- The fight to be heard as a woman
- Indira’s more challenging moments as an actor and how she empowers herself
- And so much more!
Here’s a glance at this episode:
The Voices of the Dying & the Newly Born
The Universal Awkwardness of Hearing Our Own Voices and Seeing Ourselves
ADR & The Importance of Being Able to Replicate Your Performance
Using Physical Triggers to Tell the Story! (aka don’t show me your emotions!)
Why Indira Loves Doing Radio Plays & Voiceover
Working with an Intimacy Coordinator
The Importance of Listening and How to Use this as an Actor
Bringing Forth the Voice & Multicultural Family
How do you Empower Yourself in Difficult Moments in Your Work?
Experiences at The Pop Up Globe in New Zealand & Performing in The Seagull in London
The Perils of Performing – War Stories!
Acting is About Being Present With Your Friends
Performing in the Theatre Spaces Shakespeare Wrote For
Empowerment in Playing Roles VS Being Oneself
The Voices we Love & Hate – a Primal Response!
Performing Bernard Shaw’s Punctuation
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About Indira Varma
Indira is a British actor, as prolific onstage and as a voiceover as she is on film & TV. Her breakthrough leading role was in Mira Nair’s Kama Sutra. She is particularly known for the role of Ellaria Sand in Game of Thrones #GOT, as Tala Durlith in Obi-Wan Kenobi #starwars opposite Ewan McGregor and in Extrapolations with Edward Norton this year on Apple TV. She was in Bride and Prejudice, Luther, & Rome, to name just a few.
How to find Indira
Trailer Obsession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plOw4CIsqAQ
Interview Extrapolations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80zveurWpI
At the screening Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Tala Durith : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPcdD-Lb38
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