The gravest threat came not from newly liberated actors or aggressive federal trust-busters (nor from Hollywood reds or Washington red-hunters), but rather from television.
Playing a big fat archetype can be liberating for actors used to sweating over sense memory and motivation.
He finds it in the theatre, which possibly explains the exuberance of his productions, liberating texts, actors, audiences and, one now understands, the director.
He tries to liberate his actors from the tyranny of the talking-heads syndrome, but "Suspicion" still appears to be a somewhat sinister episode of "Nightline".
After a certain moment, what we tried to do was to liberate the actors within the frame and never to rehearse anything but just film it as fresh as it came.
In fact, it liberates an actor to use his entire body to express himself, to find inner places that his outer body, his own exterior, would not allow him to go.
He describes it as an "exciting and liberating" tool for actors, because it enables them to play any creature and allows them to make the character decisions rather than a committee of animators.
The cameo culture of Hollywood comedies and series like 30 Rock further serves this end, helping actors liberate themselves from an otherwise fixed public image: "Think Marion Cotillard is worthy and dull?
Though he liberated generations of actors when he brought a fresh vulnerability to his early film roles — a majestic four-year run culminating in his 1954 portrayal of Terry Malloy, the anguished ex-boxer in "On the Waterfront" — Brando had barely reached his 30s before he entered his Elvis-in-the-jumpsuit phase.
It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes...since Lord of the Rings it has evolved hugely and I've been part of that.
