To Live and Act in LA contains the behind-the-scenes stories of professional background actor Lary Crews and his career in Los Angeles working on feature films and TV shows. Crews is the creator of the popular blog, Background Acting, and a 30-year vetera
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Play a character; don’t be merely a piece of scenery.
I’ve played a specific character in nearly all my 40+ background acting assignments. Am I crazy? Perhaps. Am I a professional dedicated to improving the final product; you bet your boots!
Many...
In movie acting, consistency is no hobgoblin; it’s a requirement.
When acting in movies or TV, we never perform a scene just once.
We do the same scene over and over again, so the director can capture the scene from different angles and at different...
Acting on film: focus and subtlety.
A film is always much richer when we actors have the confidence not to explain, but just to do; when we feel secure enough to leave things open.
I strive for purity of expression and elimination of self when I am...
I am so excited to be starring (again) in Sin City Savior, being shot in Las Vegas soon.
Those who follow my career know that I worked on a film by the same title in the spring of 2009. It was a down and dirty student film back then, mostly for a UNLV...
Am I a hitman, a Mafia don, a conspiracy theorist or me?
The cruel paradox of bring a professional background actor in movies and television is that I work in a fickle, money-obsessed industry, yet success comes from my being sensitive, vulnerable and...