Book description
A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text
about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the
Actor reveals the truth about film acting. The book describes his
film work, from Amadeus to Four Weddings and a Funeral, from Ace
Ventura: When Nature Calls to Shakespeare in Love.
Its centrepiece is a hilarious and sometimes agonising account of
the making of Manifesto, shot in the former Yugoslavia. When Callow
first met the film's director Dusan Makavejev to discuss the movie,
they both got on famously. Months later the two were barely speaking.
Insightful and always entertaining, Shooting the Actor reveals more
than any formal guide could about the process of film-making and the
highly complex nature of being both actor and director.
Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared on the
stage and in many films, including the hugely popular
Four Weddings
and a Funeral.
His books include
Being an Actor, Love is Where it Falls
, the first two volumes of his three-volume life of Orson Welles, his
theatrical memoir
My Life in Pieces
, the highly acclaimed
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the
World,
and
Charles Loughton: A Difficult Actor.
