This term Scot will be teaching us the Ivana Chubbuck technique. This is a 12 step technique, which provides you with tools to get out of your own head as an actor and apply real emotion from your own life to the role, which can be the most naturalistic way you can act.“In order to recreate real human behaviour and truly be in the scene (and avoid “acting” it out), I teach you to go to the source of what motivates human behaviour.” Ivana believes in going straight to the script, making a analysis from the viewpoint of the behaviour of the person, why and how people really behave? This is probably why Scot ‘admired her’.
As I am not too familiar with this technique or Ivana herself, I thought it would be wise to do some research on her and her technique.
I watched this youtube video, which talks about her book ‘the power of the actor’ which scot has recommended us all to buy. He calls it his ‘acting bible’. Scot has discussed the technique with us and the tools that come with it, but this video went in too much more detail. It explained not only the tools and how to apply them but also how to ‘let it all go’ at the end before you go on to do a scene. I will continue to research this technique and buy her book. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOVPMV5wgv4)