JEFF COREY; EMILY COREY
Improvising Out Loud,
05/2017
Book Chapter
In all my years as a teacher, I have stressed the importance of an actor bringing as much of himself to a role as possible—even if he has never experienced what his character is going through. In Patrick McGilligan’s insightful book,Jack’s Life,Jack Nicholson eloquently describes what he learned in my class in the following manner: “you have at least seventy-five percent in common with any character you’ll ever play, if it’s Hitler or Peter Pan. What you have to find is that twenty-five to five percent difference, and that’s what you have to act. The other part
