Teaching the True Art of Acting

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Welcome to the Faith and Family Filmmakers podcast.

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My name is Jaclyn, and today I'm speaking with Tina Gallo.

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This is our second interview.

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If you didn't catch her first one, please listen to the previous episode.

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It was a great interview and we're actually gonna pick up where we left off.

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We were talking about Tina had spent some time, away from the industry so she could raise her children, and then as they were grown, she realized.

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The faith-based film industry is looking like it's, uh, moving in a direction that she wanted to be part of.

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So Tina, why don't you tell me how did you get back into the industry?

Tina: 00:00:33

Oh, well.

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Well, nice to be back.

Tina: 00:00:35

Thank you, Jaclyn.

Tina: 00:00:37

Well, I remember sitting down it, it, I guess it was probably the Kendrick Brothers, right?

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It was facing the Giants and fireproof.

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It was around that time when those movies started coming out and I remember thinking, wow, this has purpose.

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There's a mission, you know, and I would love to take the talent that God had given me and be a part of this.

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And so that's where it began stirring in me again.

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But obviously I didn't know how to go about that at the time, being a single mother, uh, focusing on my son, um, you know, just getting him through life.

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Um, he was, I think, getting ready to become an Eagle Scout.

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He was in scouts and, you know, we were thinking about college and getting him through school.

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all of those things.

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And so I, my mindset was I'd have to go to New York or LA and I thought, well, I'm not gonna do that again.

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Um, and compromise my son and he's had a life, you know, and I wasn't gonna uproot him I kind of felt like I was being selfish to just go back into that world again.

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And I knew what it was like and the dedication that it took, running around to auditions and all that.

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So, um, but that started the stirring and I thought, wow, I'd love to do this.

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and then, you know, fast forward a little bit, um, I had an encounter with the Lord actually one day in my bedroom.

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I don't know if I can go into all this

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'cause of the time, but, uh, okay.

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Well.

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I was sitting by my, well, it's funny, okay, I'll tell you this story.

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My son was probably at that time, maybe around 11,

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Okay.

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and I, we really never used the word can't in my home because it's contrary to the word of God.

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It says, I can do all things through Christ who senses me, right?

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So when he would say, I can't do that, I'm, I can't, mom, I'd say, oh, yes you can.

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And.

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He'd say, I'd try.

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I said, well, don't try.

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Let's do, and so it was just something we would do in my, in my home that I raised him on.

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And one day this was stirring up in me and um, I. He said to me, mom, why don't, I was in real estate at the time and I was really burned out.

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It was not my calling.

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I had a team, I was doing well, but it was not my calling.

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And that was when the shifting was beginning.

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And the love for acting was really stirring up in me again because of all the things I was beginning to see and I wanted to be a part of.

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And one day I was sitting in my room on my vanity and I looked to the left of me and it was like a vision.

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I was about 90 something years old lying on my deathbed, and I think it was my oldest son.

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I couldn't see clearly, but I feel it was him.

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And he leaned over and he said to me, mom, do you have any regrets?

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I'm sorry.

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I'm about to cry.

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It's so real.

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And I, I never looked at life of having regrets because I felt like I always learned from something.

Jaclyn: 00:03:31

Mm-hmm.

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And I remember tears coming down my eyes and I said to him, just one.

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And he said, what's that?

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I said that I gave up my profession, my lifestyle, I realized at that time how much I was missing the art of acting.

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Not the fame of acting, but the art and the true art, and reading the scripts and the stories and all of it.

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That made me feel alive inside.

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And, um, sorry.

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Yet the tears come and I just remember sitting there watching this vision and so I had to go into the room and I was tucking my son in and he said, mom, we must have been talking about something.

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He said, mom, why don't you just become an actress again?

Jaclyn: 00:04:23

Wow.

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And I said to him, Aaron, I can't do that.

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I'm too old.

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I was like in my forties at the time.

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I said, I can't.

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And he looked at me.

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He goes, but mom, you can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens you.

Jaclyn: 00:04:41

Oh.

Tina: 00:04:42

And I'm getting goosebumps right now saying it.

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I remember just looking at him.

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It was that aha moment of, oh my gosh, I just, I did everything I've ever

Jaclyn: 00:04:55

Yeah.

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My words and he just gave them back to me.

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And so I had come in my bedroom thinking about that.

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Oh man, I have to undo that.

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But I sat down on like, um, a trunk I had in my room and I was sitting on the trunk and I thought, oh man, Lord, how do I do that?

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I can't, how do I do that?

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And then at the same time, I'd have to go undo what I just said.

Jaclyn: 00:05:19

right.

Tina: 00:05:21

And, um, I got a great idea of my own idea.

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Which was, I know what I'll do voiceovers, and then I don't have to be in front of the camera so nobody will see me.

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And that'll work because I came from the mentality understand in Hollywood, once you were over 40, you were like done.

Jaclyn: 00:05:41

Uh.

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Especially the kind of things that I usually got, And so that was my mentality.

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It was ridiculous.

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I look back now, but that really was the day in the era that I came out of, and it was very slim.

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Pickens getting rolls after, 40.

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So was my idea.

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Well, it was interesting.

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As I pursued the voiceover, God put me in front of the camera.

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Hmm.

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So that's how it began.

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And in the meantime, I did go back in the bedroom and I did sit down and talk with my son and I said, well, you know what I'll do, Aaron.

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I'm gonna pray about it.

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And if God calls me back to this, then he's gonna make a way.

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If he does, I will obey it.

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And we prayed together.

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He went to sleep and I left it like that.

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And then I started trying to do the whole voiceover and I did some of that, but God put me in front of the camera and that's how I, I made my entryway back into the industry.

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I love it.

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And with self taping, know, self taping came around eventually.

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Um, which allowed for being able to audition no matter where you lived.

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I.

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right?

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so that was another piece of it.

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I did not have to be in New York or la.

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We could work from anywhere.

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Um, at least do the auditions now.

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So I had to learn that whole, that was a new animal in itself.

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'cause I came from the world of, you know, everything in person.

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And so that took me about a year to, uh, really, um.

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Learn how to do good and effective and truthful artistic self tapes, where I was being true to the behavior of my character.

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And so I fell in love with it all over again.

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Never left me.

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and God opened that door and made a way.

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So that's how I came back.

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And so then how did you move into teaching acting?

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That's all.

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God, there again.

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Um, but truly because I never ever had a vision of teaching.

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If you ever asked me in my life, you know, what about teaching?

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I'd go, oh, no.

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You know, that's, no thank you.

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I mean, I just never saw that for me.

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Um, and it's one of the greatest joys I have now.

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God called me to that.

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Um.

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I was asked to teach a commercial course here in Nashville, a two day commercial course one day, and I did do that.

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Um, I. Then after I taught that course, I started getting calls.

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I teach, do I teach acting?

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And I was like, no, I'm sorry.

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I don't, I just don't, you know.

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And I, I just let it go and kept saying, no, I don't, I don't.

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And then I remember a plat, um, I don't know if it was Zoom, it might have been a different platform because I don't remember seeing the people watching me, but someone asked me if I would.

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Do an hour talk about acting.

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And I remember thinking, what am I gonna say?

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I don't know.

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How am I gonna fill up an hour?

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And, um, I agreed to do it and I'll, I'll tell you what, I was really kind of fearful of doing that it was new.

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And I thought, well, you know what, then you're gonna just do it afraid girl, because

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the Lord will give me the words.

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He will give me the words.

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And I mean, you've been passionate about it for years, like almost your whole life.

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You've had this passion to think, you can't think of what to say for an hour?

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No.

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Come on.

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You know what I think it was, I think I did not wanna spend an hour talking about myself.

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Oh, yes.

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That's what I think it was.

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And I was like, what am I gonna do?

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Go on for an entire hour and just talk about me and pat my myself on the back.

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Like, what is this?

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So I prayed about it, and really, I love where it went, and that hour went by so quickly.

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It was so, so fast.

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I loved it, but the Lord led it into the direction.

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That created such an excitement in me, which was talking about the roots and the training that I had, which in the day I took for granted.

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But my goodness, I am a proud lifetime member of the actor studio.

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That is huge.

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know, in New York, that's all everybody ever wanted.

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And you know, I'm up there like, well, not me, but Al Pacino's a member, you know?

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Um, um.

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Baldwin Pacino and Ellen Bernstein, they're like the directors.

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Lee Strasberg started that from the Early Group theater.

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And so I'm a lifetime member of the actor studio.

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I started with HB Studios, got to work personally with Uda Hagan.

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Then went over to Strasberg.

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He had just passed on and I worked with his handpicked teachers.

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Then I got to work and went over to Stella Adler, worked with her personally.

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Went over to Sandy Meisner, didn't work with Sandy, he had just had that operation on his throat and had a trip, what do you call it in your, like a hole in your throat.

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Forget what

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Oh, is that a tracheotomy?

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Yeah, that's it.

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but you know, I worked with, what a blessing to work with the masters under Stanski themselves.

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And then I end up with, uh, Jack Walter.

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And so.

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All of that I realized was stirring up in me as I was doing this talk, and it went into talking about stanski and it and I, got to share about working with these masters personally.

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And then I realized only when I moved to Nashville that there was a myth about method acting.

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Every time you mentioned the word method, people were like, oh, I don't like Lee Strasberg.

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I like Sandy Meisner.

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And I'm like, I would ask them questions, well, can you tell me the difference of the two?

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And then I'd get this thing on emotional recall.

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Like it was spooky and weird and it was gonna make you crazy, and you're gonna have to bring up all these hurtful elements of your life.

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And it was so far from what we've learned.

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And it wasn't true.

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And if you wanted to use emotional recall, you could, but does anybody have good memories?

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works for that too.

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You know, and what I learned by working with all these instructors is that they had different things that they called, Lee was known for relaxation.

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Um, Stella is fabulous at script and character analysis.

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Her and Sandy, you know, it was all about, they all wanted the same thing, which was what Stanski wanted.

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Same kind of approaches if you took that class called it a little bit different, but it was to find truth in the work, truthful behavior.

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I always tell my students, I don't teach you to act.

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I teach you how not to act.

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It's about honoring a writer and understanding the world of the writer, and then taking realities of the moment within the script and bringing a truthful behavior to the realities of those moments.

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And so.

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I didn't know how we do that online because I started in person and then after Covid hit, I started getting students from all over after I watched Jack Waltzer, he's still teaching at 97 today, do it online.

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And I thought, well, I can do this.

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I can actually keep this authentic like conservatory style and do this.

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And I got a real hunger to do that for the faith-based actors I don't promote that.

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You have to be a Christian in my classes and you don't.

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But everybody is pretty much, we pray in my classes, there's rules, there's no swear words.

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you don't have to curse to be good at your craft and your art.

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Amen.

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really artistic.

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Um, and.

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It's just amazing to see that everybody in there, we pray together.

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We're a family, we're a group.

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We have a private group page.

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They support each other.

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There's no judgment, there's no competition.

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It's just all about the art and the craft of acting.

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I bring in unbelievable.

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Guest, Armand Deante, a-list actor joined us.

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Larry Moss, a-list acting coach for Hillary Swank.

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Leo DiCaprio, I mean, he's one of the top-notch acting coaches.

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He came in and joined us.

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Sally Fields's gonna be joining us.

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and it just goes on and on, and that's a gift.

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And I'm able to get those people in because they're lifetime members to the actor studio.

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And so they come in and they pour back to my

Jaclyn: 00:13:36

Mm.

Tina: 00:13:38

I learned from the students just as much as they learned from me, and we're all in this together.

Tina: 00:13:43

But my heart is to bring even better acting to the faith-based films because I see the writers are doing that and productions are doing that now, and these projects are getting better and we need great actors to, uh, bring good life and authentic life to these performances as well.

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So that's my heart.

Jaclyn: 00:14:04

Yes.

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And I totally agree.

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I really, I can see that there's this rise of pursuing excellence and you know, when each.

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Element is bringing the very best that it can.

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Then when we bring that together, we can truly honor God with that and inspire people that are watching.

Jaclyn: 00:14:22

Um, and what I really love, I mean, you're talking to a writer here, what I love about what you said was like understanding.

Jaclyn: 00:14:29

What the writer was intending, and because I do, when I write, I am writing with the mindset of I am trusting my actor to do what you are saying actors need to do.

Tina: 00:14:43

That starts with honoring the writer.

Tina: 00:14:46

You know, it's funny, I teach my students all the time because this is the way I was trained.

Tina: 00:14:52

You have to read your script.

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You know, it's funny.

Tina: 00:14:54

Anthony Hopkins reads his script like 99 times because it's always bringing new life.

Tina: 00:14:59

Um, Armand Deante said it, you know, he's been on set recently where actors can't even remember their lines.

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They don't know their lines, or they only have read the sides.

Tina: 00:15:08

That's one of the things I drill into my students some don't last because they don't wanna do the work.

Tina: 00:15:12

I'm just being honest.

Tina: 00:15:14

But we're right now going through a long day's journey into the Night by Eugene O'Neill and I combined the script analysis and the character analysis together because to me, one of the greatest masters of doing that was Stella Adler.

Tina: 00:15:28

But I've been on sets where the actors.

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Don't know the whole story because they haven't read it.

Tina: 00:15:36

And that is really sad because I remember when I was a young actress and it was at Strasberg, you know, where we would really break down scripts and we had conversations.

Tina: 00:15:47

But what you just said.

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How can you understand the world that the writer is bringing here?

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Or even your character if you don't understand the world that the writer is writing about?

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And so Armand had said that when he joined us as well, because you don't have a foundation, these actors don't last.

Tina: 00:16:05

But it does take discipline and it takes a commitment.

Tina: 00:16:09

But even Larry Moss says it in his book, he shared with us when he joined us, you know, at least read it three times.

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Once like an audience.

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Second time, read it and bring language to it and take your notes about the world, about the social economics of the character, whatever it all is, and then read it again the third time out loud.

Tina: 00:16:28

But you've gotta under understand the social economics, the timing of when this is being written.

Tina: 00:16:33

So many elements that help bring that life to the character that you're portraying.

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And so there's no shortcuts.

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And so in my classes, I do, um, teach them, you know, don't look for the shortcuts in the work.

Tina: 00:16:46

if you're wanting to be a true artist and you wanna be sustained and you want to work, because it does take effort and, that discipline for sure.

Tina: 00:16:56

And if a writer can sit down and put their heart such as yourself into a story, there's so many subliminal messages.

Tina: 00:17:05

That you are writing in there for us.

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And we're not gonna find it by just reading it once.

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It's the more that we read it, we start seeing the life of this.

Tina: 00:17:15

And, and the beauty, when you start portraying those characters that you so eloquently write is the nonverbal moments.

Jaclyn: 00:17:22

Yes,

Tina: 00:17:23

And we have to be able to understand those.

Tina: 00:17:25

Right?

Jaclyn: 00:17:25

Yes.

Jaclyn: 00:17:26

And that's what I mean when it, comes down to trusting the actor.

Jaclyn: 00:17:29

Because if I have to write all the actor's thoughts on the page, for one, it's not good writing, but for two, how is an actor supposed to act?

Jaclyn: 00:17:38

They're just telling my story.

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that's not how it works, right?

Jaclyn: 00:17:41

This collaboration between the writer and the actor is the writer has to create.

Jaclyn: 00:17:47

The characters, the scenario, and then create this authentic expression for the character, and then the actor has to recognize that and then bring that to life.

Tina: 00:17:58

Yeah.

Tina: 00:17:58

' cause I've heard the saying many times too, being taught to an actor, you know, just think about the moment before and the moment after.

Tina: 00:18:06

Well, that's not necessarily true.

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it's not just the moment before.

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It's the world.

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It's the whole world.

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And that comes from understanding the story and reading it.

Jaclyn: 00:18:17

And here's a great example of that actually.

Jaclyn: 00:18:19

There are times where I will write a particular character that in their scenes, they're not connected to this other part of the story, but in other parts of the story, something is happening, which creates irony within that particular character's scenes.

Jaclyn: 00:18:35

And you're not gonna see that irony if you don't read the whole story.

Tina: 00:18:39

Exactly.

Tina: 00:18:40

And so it's your interpretation of the moment before, but what created that moment before that brings you into this reality of this moment?

Tina: 00:18:49

Oh, yes.

Tina: 00:18:49

Beautiful.

Tina: 00:18:51

Um.

Tina: 00:18:51

You know, there's so much truth in that.

Tina: 00:18:53

So what we do at the Nashville Studio of Method acting is cultivate artists to behave truthfully.

Tina: 00:18:57

It's about behavior, perform authentically and train under and abide by the techniques of the Stanislavski system because it is a system, but it's beautiful and it's long lasting.

Tina: 00:19:08

classical training because.

Tina: 00:19:11

It's a system that teaches you how to build and you get a strong foundation.

Tina: 00:19:15

You come out of my classes, and in these classes you learn that you have a process and there's not only one way to get to the work.

Tina: 00:19:22

You find the different tools that work for you and then you use it.

Tina: 00:19:26

There's no teaching that, oh, you have to use emotional recall, or you have to use substitution.

Tina: 00:19:32

You know, you find what works for you and then you use it, but you're given the opportunity to discover that.

Tina: 00:19:39

You find where the work takes you and it's a beautiful, fun experience and I hope that everyone feels that they're becoming a true artist because it's about the art of acting and it is an art.

Jaclyn: 00:19:51

Yeah.

Jaclyn: 00:19:52

I love it.

Jaclyn: 00:19:53

I love that you said, when you were talking about like in your whole story, clearly for you it is about the art, it is about the passion of developing yourself, to be able to pursue excellence, which I love that too.

Jaclyn: 00:20:07

That's something we talk a lot about here and in the other, things that we do with faf Association.

Jaclyn: 00:20:13

So can you tell me how can people find you?

Jaclyn: 00:20:16

How do they get ahold of you?

Jaclyn: 00:20:17

Learn more about what you're doing?

Tina: 00:20:19

well, they can find more information on my website.

Tina: 00:20:22

Um, probably my school page, which is www dot tina gallo.

Tina: 00:20:29

Dot com forward slash nsma and the information is on that page.

Tina: 00:20:37

We also have an upcoming, workshop I bring in, a major casting director and well, I've got a really great director coming into, um, it's, it's a workshop slash.

Tina: 00:20:48

Showcase and that's gonna be here in the Nashville area.

Tina: 00:20:51

It's an opportunity for all my students to come together.

Tina: 00:20:54

We are gonna open it up this time.

Tina: 00:20:56

Um, there'll be an audition that someone will have to do that's not been in the school.

Tina: 00:21:00

and that's gonna be June 21st and 22nd here in Nashville as well.

Tina: 00:21:05

Uh, we'll be posting out about that and who the guests are gonna be our special guest shortly,

Jaclyn: 00:21:09

And is that something that you do?

Jaclyn: 00:21:11

regularly?

Tina: 00:21:13

Every year.

Tina: 00:21:13

Uh, last time we had it, we had Beverly Holloway join us.

Tina: 00:21:16

We had Director Lisa Arnold come in.

Tina: 00:21:19

We had a voice actor, uh, coach come in.

Tina: 00:21:22

and they performed for Beverly and Lisa This year it's gonna be someone from la, major casting director and major director coming in.

Tina: 00:21:30

So it's just exciting.

Tina: 00:21:31

We're always growing, we're always doing.

Tina: 00:21:33

It's all about helping the actor get to a new level and also putting out that fire of the myths of method.

Tina: 00:21:40

You know, I think Ellen Burstyn says it best, she says, what method acting is is simply this, like Lee Strasberg would always say it's a method to the work.

Tina: 00:21:48

That's really it.

Tina: 00:21:49

It's just another method to the work.

Tina: 00:21:52

I don't know.

Tina: 00:21:53

I always look at it as people, you know, you ever see a circle and someone tells a secret in the circle, and by the time it goes all the way around and gets to the last person in the circle, you know, the secret changed.

Tina: 00:22:06

And I think there's just been a lot of teaching out there that's not been accurate, that has given this, this myth that it could be something bad for you.

Tina: 00:22:15

Um, you know, method acting.

Tina: 00:22:17

I mean, they all taught very similar and it's, it's one of the best trainings you can get and I honor it and I love keeping the legacies alive, but, it's just a system and a method to the work.

Tina: 00:22:28

Um, and you find what in my classes, like I said, there's not one way to get there.

Tina: 00:22:32

You're gonna be introduced to it all.

Tina: 00:22:33

We do a little bit of all of it, Meisner everyone, and you find what works for you.

Tina: 00:22:38

It's as simple as that.

Jaclyn: 00:22:39

Perfect.

Jaclyn: 00:22:40

Thank you so much for being on our podcast, for sharing your life, your heart, your.

Jaclyn: 00:22:45

classes and you know, and I love that you have the I can attitude.

Jaclyn: 00:22:49

I know you had the moment where you were thinking, I can't, but clearly you came back around and, you know, that's, that's something that, you know, God honors that when we honor that with him, because we know that with him, all things are possible because he can strengthen us.

Jaclyn: 00:23:04

Yes.

Tina: 00:23:05

Well, thank you for all that you're doing, for all of us actors and for our industry as well.

Tina: 00:23:10

Jaclyn, I appreciate you so much.

Tina: 00:23:12

Thank you for allowing me to be on your platform today.

Tina: 00:23:15

I really appreciate that with all of my heart and, uh, being able to share a little bit, and I pray that we're just all.

Tina: 00:23:22

Following our calling and, bringing honor to the Lord in everything that we do and that his favor be on us and that we bring glory to him.

Jaclyn: 00:23:31

Amen.

Jaclyn: 00:23:32

Amen.

Jaclyn: 00:23:33

We'll have those links in the show notes.

Jaclyn: 00:23:35

Thank you so much for being on the podcast.

Jaclyn: 00:23:36

God bless.