London Living: An Actor's Journey : Week 9

Only a little more ways to go. Really funny because I feel like I am just starting to consider my surroundings as home. Walking up and down High Street has become a routine I look forward to before and after school. It will be hard to leave London. Because it really is an actor's city.

This week, we explored our animals in acting class-brought in habitats for our animals, food, leaves, you name it. It was interesting to connect the habits and physicality of my animal (a tiger) to my character, because I found a lot of similarities and traits that could apply to my character-that I never would have thought of. Tigers move a lot from their pelvis-when they want to sit, their pelvis is the first part of their body that moves. I never thought that I could apply that to my character, who is a mother, but it makes sense-because a lot of motherly actions-like caring for a child on her lap-can stem from the pelvis region-it's not just sensual, which is what I originally thought.

I am constantly reminded, despite of the rigor of our classes, that I don't have to be perfect. It was a tough week, but I have teachers who encourage me to "be human" and "cry if I want to." So that's just what I did. It works, by the way-crying. It doesn't have to be something to be ashamed of-it's what humans do. The atmosphere here is very demanding, but also very supportive. What a blessing.