Ryan Devlin

Aug 12, 2024 | backstage.com | Ryan Devlin

The great fashion photographer Helmut Newton once said that photography is “10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.” The same can certainly be said of filming movies. Behind every scene, crews are busy moving mountains of equipment—furniture, if you will—to get the perfect take, and no piece of furniture is more important than the camera. It stands to reason, then, that an actor may want to develop a good working relationship with the person moving it.

Aug 1, 2024 | backstage.com | Ryan Devlin

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Jul 26, 2024 | backstage.com | Ryan Devlin

The Olympics are now in full swing, which means it’s time to dream of being an elite athlete. For actors, it might also mean dreaming of playing an elite athlete. “Actors want to be athletes and athletes want to be actors,” says Aimee McDaniel, a sports coordinator who’s been in the business of setting big scenes in sports movies for 25 years.

Jul 25, 2024 | backstage.com | Ryan Devlin

As you probably know already from your dog-eared copy of “An Actor Prepares,” theater guru Konstantin Stanislavsky believed that “inside each and every word, there is an emotion, a thought, that produced the word and justifies its being there.” Actors are always working on accessing those emotions, whether it’s grief, joy, passion, or anger.

Jun 14, 2024 | backstage.com | Ryan Devlin

You may not be one of the actors in consideration to play the new James Bond (yet), but chances are at some point you’ll be cast in a role that’s already been performed many times over. Like those other actors, you’ll probably be wondering how to contend with previous performances, particularly when those renditions have come to shape the role. This begs the question: Do you owe it to yourself to study past performances?