{"id":1438,"date":"2024-05-28T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:47:14","slug":"the-art-of-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/the-art-of-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A film\u2019s success often rests on the shoulders of its most bankable stars. But have stars once born to seduce the silver screen become influencers more than actors? Joined by actor Mike Gomez, we try get to the bottom of what exactly makes us fall in love with an actor. Among the giants whose shoulders many actors stand on today is none other than Marlon Brando, cinema\u2019s OG pretty bad boy.&nbsp;The latest episode of Celebrating Cinema talks acting, movie stars and the hearts they steal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/brando\/\">\u2060here\u2060<\/a> for Marlon Brando 100.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/celebratingcinema\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/nl\/podcast\/celebrating-cinema\/id1558165273 noopener\"><strong>Subscribe to our podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/how-i-fell-in-love-with-acting-by-mike-gomez\/\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffc8dc\"><strong>Cold Open<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Art of Acting (with Mike Gomez)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/44aPxcH643iihm9UlJArxq?si=be1ff298519c4ce6&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show notes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Jxm_sV70b1w?si=1JXMJWWjzvYx4AqO\">The Best Acting of All Time Compilation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FDVR73qUSXU?si=eHmJOw1mnHQ61L3V\">Movie Monologues That Changed My Entire World View | Like Stories of Old<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/n0mEHhkQRq8?si=R3uktzCmpjBc0yG8\">The Best Acting I&#8217;ve Ever Seen | Thomas Flight<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pAFUn4Dwk54?si=tf8nlkzbnrbD3WSH\">Rick Dalton Going Mad | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@pcmw\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Films mentioned<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(click on the links for tickets to screenings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/\">LAB111<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spider-man (Sam Raimi, 2002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington, 2002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lion King (Roger Allers &amp; Rob Minkoff, 1994)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charlie&#8217;s Angels (McG, 2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monkey Man (Dev Patel, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m, 1993)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/apocalypse-now-final-cut\/\">Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/on-the-waterfront-70th-anniversary-4k-restoration\/\">On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Score (Frank Oz, 2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lab111.nl\/movie\/the-godfather-part-i-ii-double-bill-incl-italian-meal\/\">The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good Time (Josh &amp; Ben Safdie, 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Intern (Nancy Meyers, 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reality (Tina Satter, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our hosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1542\" height=\"2313\" data-id=\"1431\" src=\"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sophie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" 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Actor Mike Gomez joins the podcast to examine the alchemy of screen performance \u2014 from Marlon Brando&#8217;s shadow over every method actor that followed to the question of whether today&#8217;s bankable names are influencers more than actors. The conversation circles cinema&#8217;s oldest seduction: the performer who makes you forget the camera is there, who makes you forget yourself entirely. An episode about what it actually means to act on screen \u2014 and why we keep believing in bodies we know are performing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebratingcinema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}