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The Bold Acting Podcast

Reflections from Jason Bryden"s More-than-just-an-Acting-Class class in Toronto.

I"m an actor and a teacher in Toronto. But I don"t just teach acting. I teach performance technique that everyone can use. Each week I"ll publish an episode that covers the newsletter, everything we"ve been working on in class and all of the videos I"ve published on social media. All in one place. boldacting.substack.com

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45. Starting Artists

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/11/19

Somehow with all that’s going on the pressure is off. I’m reminded not to be surprised. Dogs are going to bark, baker’s gonna bake and humans are going to treat each other terribly. What’s important to you? For me, for now, it’s blood.Tonight I made some fake blood. Two tablespoons of chocolate syrup, one cup of corn syrup and some red food colouring. This is for a short film, a Western, I’m making with my old friend Mike and my new friend Shelly. There is nothing going on in Film & TV so there are

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43. Kensington Diner

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/11/05

We have shot two episodes of a digital series I have created called Kensington Diner. We have four more to go. I based some of them on some of my favourite films: Cleo de Cinq a Sept, In Bruges, When Harry Met Sally, My Son the Fanatic. I steal from the greats — I do not just let myself be inspired by — and then I put someone else’s ideas or filmic techniques or casting choices or story elements through my own neophyte gaze and out pops a dog’s breakfast unrecognizable to it’s estranged parent. Rob

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42. MESSAGES TO MYSELF

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/10/13

From the Oxford English Dictionaryhypocrite, n.From the Middle English by way of Old French: ecclesiastical; and the Greek: One who falsely professes to be virtuously or religiously inclined; one who pretends to have feelings or beliefs of a higher order than his real ones: A pretender, a dissembler, an actor on the stage.It’s all about me, unfortunately. Every prescriptive pearl is aimed at me. I use the word ‘you” but I mean me. Do you? Don’t you? Don’t we all?1. You’ll Tire of MeA disclaimer. I’m

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41. A Weird Way to Go Out

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/10/07

I found a book in a little library called Talk Like Ted. It’s annoying both because I’m easily annoyed and it was written by a finance Chad that’s more successful than me. One suggestion is when you want to engage an audience (like at a Ted Talk) teach them something new. Or at least frame it in a novel way. I’ve been doing this newsletter for a couple years now and I am ready for something new. So here is one:I’m doing a new podcast with my friend Preet Banerjee . He’s a wealth manager and personal

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A Massive Bob

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/09/30

A pendulum is a weight called a bob suspended from a pivot so it can swing freely. In Math there is a simple gravity pendulum that swings without friction. This is so nerds can measure things like amplitude and bob’s trajectory. In real life there are other forces affecting the period of oscillation, like gravitational pull and friction. The pendulum is within us and without. A starving man overeats and is soon vomiting. A suicidal person gets a terminal cancer diagnosis. You fall head over heels in

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1. The Gord Record

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/09/27

Now more than ever actors have to make their own opportunities. On the first episode we talk about how ACTRA members can make their own stuff and how best to navigate the ACTRA Toronto Co-op agreement. Cohosted by Gord Rand and Jason Bryden. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boldacting.substack.com/subscribe

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37. "… Open thine eyes. I am still here, just older.”

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/09/24

How to be a Person is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.In Judith Kerr’s YA novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (based on her escape from Nazi Germany as a child) she writes about how leaving her home and moving to Switzerland, Paris and finally London was a great adventure.It was not, of course, for her parents. They managed to keep it together under terrible circumstances and shielded their children from much of the

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35. Persistence - Adaptability = Insanity

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/09/16

2009. A party at a house in Silver Lake. A horror movie director, named Tom, in a white button down shirt. A fat man with an architect’s eyewear that knew Jack Kerouac. The living room had a billiards table. The parlour had a wet bar, a wine closet and a stripper’s pole.I had made the hosts bucatini in a red sauce the week before. They served a better version of the same dish tonight. She had a tick where she would breathe quickly in through her nose twice when she wanted to punctuate something she

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32. How To Be A Person -- Everything is Porn

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/08/23

Porn is no longer relegated to sex acts. If the definition of a porn compulsion is an inability to stop using it (and let’s face it, we’re not just passively watching porn) then porn is also the way we interact with social media, dating apps and the biggest streamer in the world, YouTube. If you’re swiping and you’ve thought to yourself, “I’m 30 minutes closer to the grave and I have nothing but shame and self-loathing to show for it,” it’s porn. Swiping up and down, left or right =

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27. How To Be A Person -- "A Second Intention"

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/07/07

27. How To Be A Person — A Second IntentionThe kids were dressed-up. The parents were sweaty. 14 was graduating from his tiny middle school — population 58 students — at 1:30PM on a Wednesday in June. The ceremony was held in the gym at Shirley Street P.S. in the Portuguese neighbourhood of Brockton Village.Beside the school is 75 St. Clarens. The very first house we lived in all those years ago when we moved as a young family to Toronto. Coming back here triggers feelings of nostalgia and memories

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23. How to be a Person -- 40 000 Feet

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/06/10

When I type the title of this newsletter there is always a grammatical negotiation that goes on in my head. Title case isn’t, as previously thought, capitalizing the first letter of every word. It is capitalizing just the major words — which suggests there are minor words. These are articles and pronouns. (Even in 2024 grammar doesn’t really care all that much about your pronouns.) But what of ‘be’? Isn’t the word ‘be’ major? It’s the subject of pretty much everything from Hamlet’s relentless

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22. How to be a Person -- We’ve Got to Talk About How...

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/06/04

Everybody knows the polls look terrible for Justin. Everyone knows Pierre Poillievre will be our next Prime Minister. But there are three things that Justy Trews could do differently that would afford him a more elegant exit.By virtue of Pierre’s runaway popularity I find myself hoping the lengthy run-up to the next election is just enough rope for the Calgarian. And by the way, he IS a Calgarian so the Anglos trying to pronounce Poillievre’s name Frencherly can stop. Thanks. You’re fooling no one.

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21. How to Be A Person — These are the People in your...

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/05/24

What stories are you telling yourself?Victimhood is the neighbourhood I used to live in (but I’m not talking about trauma. I’m just talking about how the ego hijacks.)A favourite story I used to tell myself was the one where I absolve myself of all responsibility for bad things happening. It was in 1993 and a friend of mine accused me of hitting on his girl. I would never have done such a thing. He was way stronger than me, older than me, I looked-up to him. I remember mooning about Banff (I don’t

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The Bold Interview: Dmitry Chepovetsky on How...

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/05/22

Born in 1970 in Lviv, Ukraine Dmitry Chepovetsky’s family moved to Regina when he was a baby.He began acting in high school before attending theatre school at Ryerson now known as Toronto Metro University.Chepovetsky is best known for his recurring role on ReGenesis as Bob Melnikov, the show’s lead biochemist and a person with autism. The role garnered him two Gemini Award nominations for best actor in a dramatic series once in 2005 and once in 2007.Chepovetsky has also played Nikola Tesla in CBC’s

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The Bold Interview: Eric Peterson is Out of Work

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/05/18

Eric Peterson is one of Canada’s most iconic actors. With a career that spans more than 50 years. Best known for his roles in Corner Gas, Street Legal and onstage as the WWI flying ace Billy Bishop in Billy Bishop goes to War which he co-created with writer and composer John Gray.We talk about how at age 77 he doesn’t have any work lined-up. As well as what makes for great performance and what was his best year. Peterson lives in Toronto with his wife Annie Kidder, sister to the late Margot

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20. How To Be A Person: Comparative Studies of my...

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/05/11

Thanks to my paid readers. I appreciate you more than you know. I brag about you in social settings. You don’t have to pay for this but you do. The future looks brighter with you in my corner. If you like this newsletter consider upgrading to paid. Doing so gives you license to complain to me about spelling misteakes, grammatical errors, etc. Consider becoming a paid subscriber. Apples to OrangesI recently spent an hour on instagram and deleted the app once again from my phone. I would quit the

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What I Learned from Jimmy Carr

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/05/07

Getting advice from comedians is like getting advice from a funny person that has managed to survive one of the most difficult vocations around. I don’t have to tell you that comedians come out on stage, into what is historically a hostile environment their only weapons a mic and their words. Who better to give survival tips? Jimmy Carr is a British stand-up comedian known for his offensive one-liners and deadpan delivery. “I could have phoned in a showbiz book of 60,000 words, stuck a couple of

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18. How To Be A Person According to a Stand-up Comedian

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/05/03

"What I Learned ..." is one of three different streams of podcasts you’ll find under the hospices of The Bold Acting Podcast. The other two are the Bold Interview (upcoming talks include Eric Peterson) and this newsletter. Find all the episodes wherever the podcasts are for you. Friday, May 3rd, 2024Advice from a stand-up doesn’t seem so wrong. British comic Jimmy Carr had a boring life, he didn’t want it anymore so he stopped working for Shell Oil and started doing stand-up instead.Now he has an

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17. How To Be A Person - The Newsletter

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/04/28

Sunday April 28th, 2024Thank you to the paying customers, you golden few that have upgraded to paid. I really appreciate you. Do you pay for other newsletters? If so what makes it worth it? I’ve included a poll here for paid subscribers. I’d love to know what you think and how I can make BOLD better.This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: Be Bold ‘Cause You’re Going to Die. (When it comes out you have only one choice: buy in bulk. I have your email address. I’ll know if you only buy one. I’m dying

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16. How To Be A Person

The Bold Acting Podcast ·

2024/04/22

Monday April 22nd, 202414 and 11 (almost 12) are keeping their cards close to their chest. I am always asking them if they’re masturbating yet in an attempt to normalize it. I am beginning to think I have failed. You know when someone talks so much you can’t hear them anymore? I think that has happened.I haven’t used porn since September 2022. I wasn’t hooked on it but I did rely on it and I wanted to have my house in order before my children came of age.I miss it. So convenient. Not like a miss

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