I never seen any actor/actress

[Markymark]

....no matter how good or talented ...ever able to act convincingly drunk. It's always painful but you think someone would be able to manage it.

Dylan Moran in the outrageously good Black Books is they closest I've ever seen though I have my suspicions he actually was drunk!

 

[Crackle]

You do quite a good job on here though.

 

[Glenn]

Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris had plenty of experience. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/15/peter-otoole-60s-hellraiser

 

[raleighnut]

David Threlfall in Shameless.

 

[MarkF]

Willie Ross

 

[Stephenite]

Convinces me everytime. (I have to sit through this each year as it's become a norwegian christmas tradition).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc

 

[Crackle]

Convinces me everytime. (I have to sit through this each year as it's become a norwegian christmas tradition).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc

I love that: "Oooh, I'll kill that cat...."

 

[Drago]

Geezer wot plays Phil Mitchell, he does a good drunk.

 

[jonny jeez]

....no matter how good or talented ...ever able to act convincingly drunk. It's always painful but you think someone would be able to manage it.

Dylan Moran in the outrageously good Black Books is they closest I've ever seen though I have my suspicions he actually was drunk!

True.

Another one, I have never seen an actor portray a real person in an interview, convincingly.

You know the documentary things where an "actor has replaced the witness" to retain anonimity or something, they always look and sound like an actor. Real people don't act the way actors interpret them .

Either that, or the actor is playing up the part, for their own showreel.

I happened upon a fake documentary (advert) for the new to series "Mars" last week. It was a fake interview with Trevor McDonald and a line up of astronaut, designed to look like a genuine interview..

It was so obviously an advert as the actors were so earnest, full of character and articulate both physically and verbally. Real astronaughts...real people...just aren't.

 

[Fnaar]

Frank Kelly as Father Jack : I rest my case

 

[Brains]

True.

Another one, I have never seen an actor portray a real person in an interview, convincingly.

You know the documentary things where an "actor has replaced the witness" to retain anonymity or something, they always look and sound like an actor. Real people don't act the way actors interpret them .

Either that, or the actor is playing up the part, for their own show-reel.

I happened upon a fake documentary (advert) for the new to series "Mars" last week. It was a fake interview with Trevor McDonald and a line up of astronaut, designed to look like a genuine interview..

It was so obviously an advert as the actors were so earnest, full of character and articulate both physically and verbally. Real astronauts...real people...just aren't.

I think sometimes that is the point, they don't want the voice over to match or sound correct, it's a deliberate voice over.

That said; if you remember back to the 1990's when the UK parliament banned on of it's own MP's from speaking on British TV (Jerry Adams), the BBC employed a guy with a strong Northern Irish accent who sounded exactly the same as Jerry Adams who then lip-synced all the interviews perfectly. After a couple of years the Government allowed him to speak directly and no one noticed the difference!.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas had a scoop or two....

 

[jonny jeez]

I think sometimes that is the point, they don't want the voice over to match or sound correct, it's a deliberate voice over.

That said; if you remember back to the 1990's when the UK parliament banned on of it's own MP's from speaking on British TV (Jerry Adams), the BBC employed a guy with a strong Northern Irish accent who sounded exactly the same as Jerry Adams who then lip-synced all the interviews perfectly. After a couple of years the Government allowed him to speak directly and no one noticed the difference!.

Yes, my example wasn't a good one.

Actors can never pull off the innate discomfort that a member of the public shows in front of a camera because if the did so, convincingly they would be interpreted as uncomfortable and we would consider them a poor actor.

They cant win

So actors always, smooth the delivery, make it articulate, professional and polished and in doing so, lose the raw emotion, so then try to add that back in with forced , or pretend emotion.

Its very hard for an actor to pull of "member of public"

 

[DaveReading]

 

[slowmotion]

Ian Bannen, who played Jim Prideaux in the TV version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, did a pretty good job.