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The Reality of Doing

Johan Forslund shares information about an approach to acting, focusing on the "doing"

In this video, Johan talks about how to create truthful life by really doing something. Not pretending to do something, but actually simply doing it.

As a first exercise Johan asks us to close our eyes and:

  1. Choose a song, and sing it in our head.
  2. And then, while still singing, tapping every other syllable with our right foot.

If we actually did those things he asked us to do, instead of pretending to do them, then we’re approaching what Meisner calls “the reality of doing”.

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