I'm playing a 50 year old, peppy woman in a skit in a couple of days. Since I am not 50 years old just yet (I will be in about 30 years though), I would like to know whether there are some typical behaviorisms that some or many 50 year olds have...ways of speaking, nervous habits, even stance and walking patterns. If you have any ideas, that would be great. Thank you!
2007-11-27 11:07:11 · 9 answers · asked by monkygrl825 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
My Dad is 50 today and he spent the whole day doing the worst kind of dance evry 5 minutes and saying things like: Life's just tedious, aint it? in a high pitched voice, and grabbing my knees every time he could and nipping them like I was about 7 years old.
Hope this helps because he is driving me plain crazy and it might as well benefit somebody.
2007-11-27 11:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by mouseless 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
If you want to be an actress, one of the best skills you can develop is observation. Go have lunch once in awhile by yourself in a restaurant, and eavesdrop on people at neighboring tables. This is the best way to really analyze the way people talk and converse -- and the rhythms they adopt and the timing between one person finishing a sentence and the other person starting. Take a small notebook with you and take notes -- if you take pains to not stare at the people, they won't assume you're writing about them.
Anyway, as to your question, 50 year olds are generally grounded and have enough life experience to know when to talk and when to remain silent -- you know, that whole "wisdom" thing you've heard about. Yikes, I can't believe I'll be 50 in 5 years -- I still feel like I'm 25! :-)
2007-11-27 21:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by The Snappy Miss Pippi Von Trapp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Start being more observant. Observe the people around you and you be surprised at how many fifty year old people you start to notice when you are out now that you are looking for them. Once you do that, you will get better answers than you ever could coming here to ask.
Tony
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/teen_acting.html
2007-11-28 11:59:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well im not 50 but my dad turned 50 and usually cranky bitter will always ask questions on wether your gonna be there for them.most women probally go through menapause and behaviors differ and nervous breakdowns and reallyweird but i just observe.
2007-11-27 19:16:39 · answer #4 · answered by Eddie 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh, please! A 50 yr old woman is not an old woman. She is just a mature woman. The lines in the script should tell you what she is like. She ain't no Edith Bunker.
2007-11-27 20:50:43 · answer #5 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 11⤊ 2⤋
Watch some DVDs/tapes of the TV series: "All in the Family". Observe the character: Edith. That should do the trick for you.
2007-11-27 19:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Look at you own mother peppy woman.
2007-11-27 19:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by yasses 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I'm not 50 years old.
2007-11-27 19:10:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
pills, when my grandma was 50 she would pop a pill for everything
2007-11-27 19:14:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋