jeronimo“…a few years ago, while attending a casting director workshop, I became surprisingly aware of just how many of our fellow Australian actors work here in Hollywood, by way of the CD who was hosting that particular night. The CD told us, “I can’t really put into words what the Australian actors are doing, that’s different from what you american actors are doing, when they come into a room to audition, other than, they WOW us”.

Determined to find an Australian acting coach to teach me what that WOW is, I discovered Paul, by accident, while attending another CD workshop this past spring and then started my first round of classes with him earlier this summer. What I discovered, almost immediately, was Paul’s strong “work ethic”, extreme “attention to detail” and very creative techniques to making “choices”, his patented P.I.E. technique being one them.

There were many times during class, where just when I thought I had gone as far as humanly possible with a particular scene I was working on, just when I made what I thought was the most interesting choice, Paul would (in a blink of an eye) come up with something I hadn’t thought of, I’d try it and like clockwork, it was always way more interesting to perform and/or to watch!

Paul teaches with a subtle, gentle style, with a hint of intensity. Paul’s way is like the difference between taking of the “blue-pill” versus the “red-pill”! “Take the blue pill and the story ends, take the red pill (which is the Paul-pill) and you stay in wonderland, and he’ll show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes… 🙂 ”

 

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