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I want to marry Adelina, she is so freaking beautiful.
She should go into pairs for sure.
Holy Cow, Gorgeous!!
I want to marry Adelina, she is so freaking beautiful.
She should go into pairs for sure.
Of the past -Sasha Cohen - in fact she was interested in pursuing acting career and appeared in Blades of Glory, Moondance Alexander and Bratz: The Movie
Of present, not mentioned yet, Mikhail Kolyada is very expressive and able to stay in character throughout the program. In his last interview he says that Javi impresses him most as actor on ice but his absolute favourite of all times is Philippe Candeloro and his program 'The Four Musketeers':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsGyPUXHrNA
T For me, Gabriella and Guillaume project emotion more clearly than character, at least this season. Both are good things, but they aren't the same.
That's an interesting point. I touched on it a bit in my post upthread. I agree with you that Gabriella and Guillaume are genius in portraying emotion, and by that I mean that with their acting, they convey emotion from themselves to the audience, so that audience members, if they're receptive, also get to experience the emotions P/C portray. That's more akin to Meryl Streep's style of acting IMO. She does become a character completely, and she does it through emotion. I singled out Adam Rippon as doing this, but I agree with you that P/C have that skill and talent as well.
To me, some people are talking about portraying a character, and that's different from becoming a character . Different styles and definitions of acting.
I see what you're saying with the distinction and I don't disagree. I think that some teams become the character and really show the character, some just portray it on a more surface level, some show more emotion than character and do it very level and show do emotion but don't do it deeply. Different styles and different degrees.
As someone with a lot of theatre training, I was mostly thinking about a note one of my teachers often gave people. He was big on the idea that showing emotion is not becoming a character and that emotion in acting should come from the character. Ie, you aren't playing "angry", you're playing a person, who happens to be feeling angry, the idea being simply playing an emotion is more surface level than becoming the character.
Obviously ice dance isn't stage acting though, and approaching things from more of the emotional side first isn't a negative the way it can be in acting, just a different style.
And to be clear, I don't think that P/C are just surface level or anything, I wasn't criticizing them just now in case it sounded like that. I have a slight personal preference for the more character driven style a la V/M, but I also appreciate what P/C do (and it's not that I think they ignore character or anything). I wouldn't necessarily call them the best actors, but that has a lot to do with my personal definition of acting.
I hope that all makes sense. I find this type of discussion so interesting
So do I, and yes it makes sense.
Begging your pardon, I did mention Kolyada on p. 1 of this thread, post #14. He's quirky and, in terms of this category, unique.
Did Alexander Abt become a real actor? I thought he was a soap opera or something like that.
Not sure if Abt is a real actor but Tara Lipinski was and I don't think she is that great of an actress on or off the ice.