LOVE LANGUAGES
Action. Words. Touch. Time. Gifts.
Right now, I am in Toronto, giving a seminar to the TIFF Emerging Talent Directors' Lab and the Rising Stars. I am saying to them exactly what I say to you in these pages.
I love the global community of actors and directors here on my Substack. I spend my time thinking of ways I can help you all do your best work. Feel free to share and recommend!
xx Miranda
You may have noticed that I love systems! Actually I love changing systems to suit my own purposes, so that actors and directors have more tools to use in the audition room, in rehearsal and on set. For example, you can read my article Chance and Change which talks about using weather and colour to think about journey and directors' adjustments.
Here's a system I just used this week, both to forge connection and to determine the difference between the actor's behaviour and the character's behaviour. It starts with the question
What is your Love Language?
The Five Love Languages are an old pop-psych approach to relationships. They were d…