STANISLAVSKY' SYSTEM & RICKY LO'S ANNE HATHAWAYS

By GEORGE VAIL KABRISTANTE

PMPC (Phil. Movie Press Club)   

Farmed out in different versions to www:pmpcstarnews.com, Pilipino Mirror, Remate Online, Iskandal, CMT (Columnists Monitoring Team) Update, etc.

KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY

Ang mga sumusunod na talata ay sagot ko sa ka-facebook ko na si Jaime Garchitorena on the much-ballyhooed interview ni Ricky Lo kay Anne Hathaway who happens to be  a nominee for her searing performance as Best Supporting Actress for Les Miserables sa coming Oscars. In hindsight she might just bag it.

Jaime by the way used to be a singer and actor (oh he can still be one with his drop-dead looks)  and isa ako sa mga earlier directors niya sa Music Museum in his early career as singer before Viva Films got him for the movies. A blue-blooded Atenean, si Jaime has a fan following in his FB and isa na ako riyan, hence this answer to him when he took objectively to task colleague Ricky Lo for that controversial interview with Anne Hathaway.

I must confess that somehow I have made this in part due to my selective perception of things on behalf of my good friend Ricky Lo, as follows:

RICKY LO 

Hi Jaime (Garchitorena),  your implied treatise/theory of acting in relation to Ricky Lo’s interview with Anne Hathaway I’d like to think is just one of them since Stanislavski’s theory/practice of acting morphed into the so-called Method the world over, the Philippines included.

Ricky Lo’s interview with Hathaway referencing to her privileged position in relation to her drop dead performance in Le Mis has  to do with  the notion that one’s status/experience (or worse trauma) in life also makes for a more/less sensitive acting range/depth. Honestly, I don’t have a problem with that nor it should be an issue.

  Simplistic as it may appear but it does somehow, if not more. Makes me think back to one of Hollywood’s acting guru(s)    (must be Richard Gere?) who thought that “poverty” is one “acting root”  (Gere’s term )  from which one can draw a meaningful, organic performance.  And that’s for  Gere’s.

Ironically, the enigma of acting styles does not exactly yield to any one particular theory as you would imply in your ruthless, or is it monolithic idea of crushing Ricky Lo’s question to Hathaway as non sequitur/ out of place?  I don’t think so. For me, the premise of  Ricky’s question clearly implies yet another  “school of acting” in that direction I labored above which I think is  valid to assert.

As we would privately joke among friends in the biz, there is a Vangie Labalan  school of acting, Lolita Rodriguez school of acting, Susan Roces school of acting, Sharon Cuneta school of acting, Christopher de Leon school of acting,  Eddie Garcia school of acting, Fernando Poe , Jr. school of acting,   Lucita Soriano  school of acting, Charito Solis school of acting, Cherie Pie Picache school of acting, Angie Fero school of acting, Jaclyn Jose school of acting, Nora Aunor school of acting, Vilma Santos school of acting, etc. etc.

Oh, yes diversity is beauty, see?