Peter Brusikiewicz Weekly Blog - February 27th 2007
Peter Brusikiewicz and how NYC is Today, my neighbour has not been cooperating with me. He or she, has not been giving me the Internet connection that I need to email you guys this blog. So I had to come to my Soho campus of NYFA to write this. Life in New York is good. It’s a lot of fun. The other day, my friend came over to my apartment. Her and me were hanging out at the dining room table, when all of a sudden, a cockroach, quickly ran across the table. She jumped out of her chair and began to scream “Oh my gosh! What was that?!” I had to come up with a quick excuse and I told her “Don’t worry it was a piece of lint.” Stupid excuse, I know, but it worked. Other than that, we have these seventeen-year-old kids constantly knocking on our apartment door, hoping that we invite them in. By the way, I forgot to mention to all of you Canadians: NICKELBACK is huge down here with the Yankees. Peter Brusikiewicz and how school is School is great. I have been working on a lot of projects. Last Tuesday, I had a very busy day (in a good way). It was my day off, and I went to sleep late on Monday with the intention to sleep in for a while. I received a phone call at eight o’clock in the morning on Tuesday from a director that I worked with previously. Another director was working on a film and his male actor never showed, and they were wondering if I would be able to make it and fill in. I got up on my feet and I flew down to central park to shoot. I pretty much sat on a bench in central park, on a fairly cold day, from 10am to 5pm. “Acting is fucking hard!” I thought to myself. It was a fun shoot though. When we finished I had to go to Times Square to shoot the final scene of another movie that I have worked on. The director of this movie is a tall white kid, he is 6’9. When he was walking with the Peter Brusikiewicz and how the social life is On Saturday, I went out to a nightclub with all the actors in my group. It was a very fun night. Girls were looking sweet! I got home at 500am and I had to be up at 800am to go shoot another film. This time we shot in long island. We shot until 10pm. It seems that I am already getting typecast because almost every role that I am getting, I have to be making out with a girl;) Hey man, I am not complaining! I am having fun with all the shooting. I am also learning very much from playing in all of these films. Just like when I was an editor, I would edit mostly anything at the beginning to learn, to network, and to see what I am good at. The same approach, I am taking with my acting. I have already been called “A very professional actor”. So I am enjoying myself very much. More and more, I am getting comfortable being in front of a camera, but more importantly, being vulnerable and humiliated in front of the camera. Acting is tough shit. It is the only art form where you are the artist and the technician. When you are a pianist, you are not the piano and the piano player, you are only the pianist. But in acting you are both. I can see why actors are also very insecure people at times. When you are an actor, you get critiqued a lot. There is a thin line between being critiqued as an actor or as a human being. A lot of actors, I find, to be taking the criticism as if they are being critiqued as a person and not as the technician, the actor. Peter Brusikiewicz and his acting group Other than that, I find my acting group to be awesome. It is the twelve of us, and we are the “group D”. While other people in other groups bicker with one another, we are incredibly supportive of one another. We had an exercise that we had to do on Friday for acting techniques where we spoke in gibberish about a sad story. Four out of the five people that did this that day, cried. Everyone came to class that day in a very good mood and left looking as if they want to kill themselves. I have to do mine tomorrow. Will I be able to let some tears out? Have I dug deep inside of me to let this happen? Or is my ego still hiding the most vulnerable, most humiliating, and the saddest inside of me that I have not yet unleashed? Only time will tell. Until next time… Cheers
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