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Faye Marsay Q&A

Hey! It was a really lovely experience actually. He’s very eloquent about the way he talks about acting. He’s clearly very passionate about it and spoke beautifully about his experiences. He was also funny as fuck.

He did a technique with us where he did a short monologue in three separate ways. The first was just him and the camera, talking directly to us. It was a monologue about his character telling the other character that he’s in love with them. (Not gonna lie, I did get a little flustered because it felt like it was aimed at me. Every time he looked at the camera and said ‘you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen’ I shit myself a little bit ahahaha) But then the second time he did it, he was eating a packet of crisps (salt and vinegar disco’s, if anyone was wondering what his fave crisps are) and it completely changed the way he did the scene, it felt less intense and almost too relaxed and ingenuine. Then finally he did it with his vape, and the focus on the lips made it feel really seductive and intimate, and yeah, I was blushing like a mad woman the entire time. But honestly he was brilliant. 

He talked about playing Ben a lot, and how he misses the use of touch on screen and that sometimes he finds it really hard, as he’s a touchy feely kinda guy so some scenes are a lot harder than others. (Obviously referring to Ballum scenes) but he says that learning all these different on screen tactics have been educational. He listens to Eminem a lot when he has to do an angry scene to help him emote in the moment. 

Oh, bless you. Don’t worry. It’s a live q&a acting workshop with Max Bowden on the online app Zoom. It’s part of the iampro learning website. They offered a free live workshop with Max, he put it on his insta story the other day and I signed up.

It starts at 6pm today, and it’s Max talking us through acting for the screen with one of the iampro coaches, and then they open it up to the floor for questions I believe, but that’s all I really know about it.