UNDER THE

watchful eye of in-

structor, June Whitaker,
acting students Natatia Corble
and Peter Gaitens are put
their paces.

Learning acting

from June
Whitaker is”
_ fo waltz

bove :

through |

-—ONA studio: stage, in North Vancouver, two budding actors
“try as an‘exercise to convey. a sense of urgency. The more

: From’ the audience, | instructor ” :

: June Whitaker directs the s scene, :
laying | bare their failures and stic-
cesses. a8 ‘Sometimes her comments

‘We have the capacity, for al!
‘different emotions, but we’ re
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Whitake

¢ Playroo: the exhibit ». runs

Wednesday’ to Sunday: until: June.

Museum hours, are: 1 pf mM: to a

us experienced of the two succeeds, the other does not.

ns ing-down process*’ wherein they. -
” Must initially learn to tap that.

emotional well.”

Some students come back, some ‘

doi nol.

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" BARRINGTON.

ie fae writer.

“When actor Russell Baer, 22,
landed a role in the ABC TV.

“4 movie Pioneér Woman “it was °
sort of sink or r swim — —I guess 1

‘With: Whitaker for three Yearss . :
the Alberta native did not think he
would make it through her sessions -

“tit doesn't look like she’ s a fot.
of fun sometimes. |"

iT've really Bot to the core cof .

‘ORS CAN'T LIE

who I] am," he explains of his
developing acting skills. ‘‘With her

., you never know what you'll have
‘to do next — that’s how you get to
‘the truth of who you are."'

Kathlcen‘Tanner, 28, describe:
herself as the picture of melodra-
ma — telling the andience her
emotions rather than showing _
them — when she started as an ac-
‘ting student... |

At first hesitant to open up, she "

can now. pull her emotions from

+.) within as required and use them in

her acting. 7
A lot of times you don't

believe you can go that far,"* ex-”.:

plains Tanner, who TV. viewers ©

af "may recognize from CBC’s Home

Fires, ¢'It takes a long time to get ©
over whal society.says not to... :
show."

Students must learn to hold out ,

“under the pressures of a deman-':

. ding industry. To encourage her ..:
‘Charges to get by on their own,
* Whitaker bans coffee, tea, soft’.

“ drinks and cigarettes in her studio.
From working on Whitaker's

‘ North Vancouver stage, young ac-
, tors have ‘Sone onto television

OD; oi

NEWS photo Mike Weketield

shows and films in Vancouver,
Toronto and Los Angeles.

North Vancouver residents may
recall secing Christianne Hirt on
local streets filming in Guest Ap-~
pearance —- televised as Laura .
Lansing Slept Here — alongside
Katharine Hepburn.

Whitaker-trained actors have
appeared in Danger Bay, Airwolf.
IN, Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, Fif-:
teen and other television shows,
commercials and films shoti in:

., British Columbia.

“1 don't want my actors. to be -
orcinary,"’ says Whitaker, who’;

‘made her professional acting debut °

in England at age 12: ‘There are

- too many ordinary actors

already.” :
Butina profession flooded with
aspiring greats — ‘anybody, any
fool, can Jearn lines"’ —- rising ”
above the ordinary takes more
than hard work, determination and

> talent,

The hardest p Part is $ discov ing

who you are truthfully,-and who : Bo
© you are willing to expose, ** she-<
" says. “Developing that i is the only.

tool an actor has.’ ” i *

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; Nein Shore’ performers. inter- .
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