I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a ‘coat’, which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
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Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn’t really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.
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Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like ‘Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn’t want the kids to use the skateboard park’, or ‘Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.’ It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as ‘A Man’.
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Birth: | 13th May, 1956 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Actor, Screenwriter |
Fred Melamed was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man, Sam Soto in In a World..., and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen. His role in several films include: Bone Tomahawk, Some Kind of Beautiful, The Dictator, Get on Up, Fred Won't Move Out, Suspect, Blumenthal, and The Good Mother. He earned his BA from Hampshire College and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
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