"But audiences were then utterly astonished by the skill of his acting.
The only man in the company who comes close to Cojocaru's technical level is Vadim Muntagirov, and he has nothing like her depth of acting skill.
Playing the same part year after year (Halsall joined the soap in 1998) under production conditions of peculiar intensity is a special type of acting skill and it is proper that it should be noticed.
Although the actors in horror-movie makeup strike the right visual poses, the troupe's lack of acting skill undercuts the emotional force of Goya's imagery, and the effort conveys the clumsy earnestness of an elaborately produced high school pageant.
But a combination of acting skill, comic timing, singing talent - including the high belt that is critical for well-known numbers like "Don't Rain on My Parade" - and a "quirky, surprising fearlessness" (in the words of the director Bartlett Sher) helped win Ms. Ambrose the role, the revival's producers said on Wednesday.
Daytime was spent learning the skills of acting and combat, and senior students performed in outside theatres in the evening.
They are minimal productions that focus on the soul of acting skills, exploring masks and voice.
For many years the Club served as a forum for his wide range of acting skills, comedy being his forte.
The film's director, Cynthia Mort, has been stalwart in her defense of Saldana's rightness for the role, citing not only the obvious relevance of acting skills but Simone's inclusion of a range of colors among her own "Four Women" — which is a fair point.
Dubbed by some wag as Before Sunrise for Lacanian PhD students (a semantic comedy?), it's strangely sensual but also intellectually spry and gripping, largely due to Binoche's bravura display of acting skills, from crying single tears to flirting and giggling to putting on her make-up, using the camera as a compact.
