Kathleen Turner on Acting : Conversations About Film, Television, and Theater

Working with the script -- Directing yourself -- Working with directors -- Collaborating with other artists -- In the beginning ... -- Lessons learned from working in television -- Choosing roles -- Body heat -- The man with two brains -- Romancing the stone -- Crimes of passion -- Prizzi's honor -- Peggy Sue got married -- The accidental tourist -- The war of the Roses -- Serial mom -- The virgin suicides -- The perfect family -- Working with edgy material -- Acting in film -- The stagte versus the screen -- Acting in the theater -- The intimacy of the theater -- Camille -- Reading reviews -- The graduate -- Cat on a hot tin roof -- Indiscretions -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf -- High -- Red hot patriot -- Mother Courage and her children -- The year of magical thinking -- The life of an actor -- Fame, aging and vanity -- Using the voice -- Advice for developing actors -- Studying acting -- The process of auditioning -- Dealing with rejection -- Working in the industry -- Teaching acting -- Acting and daily life -- Looking ahead and moving forward -- A closer look at the film performances.;Over Kathleen Turner's forty-year career, she has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor. In conversations with film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares her lessons with the world. Few actors have had a career as dynamic as that Kathleen Turner's; success has followed her from the television screen to major blockbusters, from indie films to the theater stage. Over her forty-year career, Turner has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor, and, in her conversations with esteemed film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares these lessons with the world. With her iconic wit on full display, Turner dazzles readers with her shrewd insights on the craft of acting and charming anecdotes from her own storied career. Touching on each of her roles, she expounds on the lessons she's learned and describes her journey of discovery in the world of acting. An epic and intense one-on-one master class in acting from the best teacher imaginable, Kathleen Turner on Acting is a must for acting and directing students of every age, established actors and directors, filmmakers, theater pros, and artists of every stripe.