Kiss, kick, kill.

Your audition sides may call for you to kiss, kick or kill. 

What’s the best question to pose? Is it, ‘How can I show that?’ or is it, ‘How can I use that?’.

You never have to show the producers that you know what is written in a scene. You won’t get cast for doing that. If a tiger appears before you in the scene you don’t have to make sure the producers know that you know it’s a tiger.

They want to see you afraid of the tiger.

What will assist your acting is finding out what happens to you before, during, and after the kiss, kick or kill. How does it change your breathing? How you feel? 

Don’t give up the opportunity to play those moments because they seem difficult to do.

For a kiss you can close your eyes, you can move your mouth, you can put your arms around yourself – anything - if you want to.

Or, you can do nothing and just live truthfully through it. 

Point is kiss, kick or kill are great transitions to play. 

Ask those good questions - is it the first kiss, the last one, the kiss of death, kissing a baby, kissing a loved one good-bye, a mother’s kiss etc.?

These activities don’t have to be mimed. Get rid of that idea. 

Holding a gun. No one will notice if you’re just pointing your finger as the gun.

Do it – point your finger. Hold your hand up to your ear as a phone. 

All good.

You won’t look stupid because they will be watching you behave and the gun-hand will be peripheral. 

If they’re looking at your hand…well.

Learn to let these iconic activities serve you.