There’s one thing Oscar Isaac does first whenever he receives a script he’s remotely interested in: he sends it straight to acting and voice coach Gerry Grennell.
“It’s usually like, ‘I think this is interesting, I wonder what Gerry thinks’.”
As Isaac explains to The Hollywood Reporter, Grennell will then usually send back detailed notes to the actor, considering areas such as what he would be searching for in the role, how he might interact with the work as both a performer and a human being, and if it offers something new for him to explore. “And by this stage, he knows me so well,” says Isaac.
But the star isn’t the only one to seek out this unassuming, charming, hilarious and exceptionally chatty Irishman’s thoughts before embarking on a new project.
Over almost 30 years, the Dubliner has quietly amassed a client list that reads...
“It’s usually like, ‘I think this is interesting, I wonder what Gerry thinks’.”
As Isaac explains to The Hollywood Reporter, Grennell will then usually send back detailed notes to the actor, considering areas such as what he would be searching for in the role, how he might interact with the work as both a performer and a human being, and if it offers something new for him to explore. “And by this stage, he knows me so well,” says Isaac.
But the star isn’t the only one to seek out this unassuming, charming, hilarious and exceptionally chatty Irishman’s thoughts before embarking on a new project.
Over almost 30 years, the Dubliner has quietly amassed a client list that reads...
- 4/7/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
My sister, Julia Wilson-Dickson, who has died aged 66 after a brain haemorrhage, was an eminent voice and dialect teacher who worked with many of the brightest talents of stage and film.
She coached Robert de Niro on Frankenstein (1994), Helena Bonham Carter on Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Julianne Moore for The End of the Affair (1999), Glenn Close on Albert Nobbs (2011), and Eddie Redmayne for the performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) that won him an Oscar. On stage she worked on several Peter Hall productions: with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Phoenix theatre, London, 1989), Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending (Haymarket, 1988), and Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra (at the National Theatre, 1987).
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She coached Robert de Niro on Frankenstein (1994), Helena Bonham Carter on Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Julianne Moore for The End of the Affair (1999), Glenn Close on Albert Nobbs (2011), and Eddie Redmayne for the performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) that won him an Oscar. On stage she worked on several Peter Hall productions: with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Phoenix theatre, London, 1989), Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending (Haymarket, 1988), and Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra (at the National Theatre, 1987).
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- 10/18/2015
- by Andrew Wilson-Dickson
- The Guardian - Film News
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