Acting Up

This week Megan and Jordan are joined by the incredible Vissey Elliot Safavi, Iranian/Bristolian, MOTHER, colleague of Megan and incredible actor - Vis has been Acting Up longer than your hosts have been a thought.
Pushed towards drama as a child to help her learn English, Vis started acting so a lady called Edwina could live vicariously through her, and thankfully she did - as it lead Vis to attend the prestigious RADA (in the 90’s!). 
Vis gets candid about how she’s navigated the industry as an Iranian woman (picking your equity name - nightmare!) and sustained a career that’s spanned decades, encompassed all the milestones of her life and has included some incredible work in theatre, TV & film and voice acting. 
Side notes include little puffball Jordan, discombobulating a cat, school reports and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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This week Megan and Jordan were meant to talk about pieces of theatre they’ve seen and the experience of watching things as an actor yourself. Which, between multiple tangents and questionable singing, they kind of do?
Conversations include having two very different experiences at the same audition, an Acting Up trip to Spirited Away at the London Coliseum, the theatrical experience of seeing Mitski and… WATCHING THE PREMIERE OF MEGANS FILM!!! 
They delve into the influential productions that shaped them into the performers that they are (including a lovely segment on the wonder that is the secondary school musical) and the impact that a lack of theatre due to inaccessibility can have when it comes to being at drama school.
Tangents include future plans to rode horse, meeting a shark and shaking its hand, live reacting one another’s naked bodies, Joseph and His Gay Pride Coat and our coming out stories (happy pride to all our clowns x).

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This week Jordan and Megan are graced by a guest that Megan scouted in a smoking area. You may recall how Morgan directed a one woman show called Fuckboy Fairytales - well,  introducing the one woman herself: the wonderful Eleanor Chilton-Sutton.
A career sparked by watching Narnia - Eleanor trained at BRIT School, went on to study English and Theatre at university, ended up doing stand-up comedy and of course wrote and starred in her debut work ‘Fuckboy Fairytales’.
Eleanor discusses how the show came to be, from the actual writing of it to how she has channelled her relationships and experiences into a show that is intimate, hilarious and reflective. She also prompts your hosts to discuss their own love languages, the types of love and some of their own tragic fairytales.
Tangents include Dramione fanfiction (hear us out!), HMRC doing girl math, why is panto like that, explaining pineapple and Jordans lost letter from an ex.

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Another episode coming at you from Vauhaus HQ, this week Megan and Jordan are joined by certified gorgeous gorgeous girl Adela Mortimer! 
Trans hottie and fellow Vauhaus model who also (of course) dabbles in acting, Adela talks us through her journey in the industry - from a young diva who always had to play the lead to her involvement with the incredible Take Back Theatre Company and finally how an open casting brought her to model with Vauhaus. 
Adela gets candid about dealing with anxiety during the lulls, the importance of valuing creatives, acknowledging nepotism and please just mind your business and let trans people live!
Tangents include a latex skirt bringing Megan and Jordan closer than ever before, Adela where the hell you been loca? and how we will be expensing our feet pics.

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What a treat we have this week! Megan and Jordan are joined by the mother of models, Jordans actual agent and founder of Vauhaus Model Agency - the incredible Toria Brightside.
Toria reveals the origin story of Vauhaus, a revolutionary modelling agency founded 10 years ago on principles of ethics, personality and sustainability, and shares invaluable wisdom on how to catch the eye of an agent and what makes a good model.
Tune in for discussions of Vauhaus HQ, the developing industry and to discover the inner machinations of an agency championing diversity, creativity and (Jordans favourite part) creating an incredible community.
Diversions include a TikTok mystery,  our lack of legal responsibility for any accidents you may have at the gym,  a very suggestive clothes steamer and an infamous night out.

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This week Megan and Jordan (your favourite lowborn actors) are joined by founder, director & writer Meghan Loughran and co-director & director Gray Enever from Lowborn Theatre!
From university project to Edinburgh Fringe to a full on theatre company, Lowborn Theatre is dedicated to creating meaningful, nuanced and accurate depictions of working class life, told by working class voices.
Gray discusses their journey into directing, from finding acting in their late teens to discovering an approach to directing that values detail, improvisation, lore and a trusting relationship between actor and director.
Meghan reveals the origins of Lowborn and how she became a writer, drawing from lived experience and channeling it into her notes app where her plays that disrupt working class stereotypes all begin.
This episode includes four people talking over one another about things such as: scaring the children of today, genetic predisposition to maths, rate my meal deal and a live performance from Ant & Seb from the X-Factor.
Apologies for the technical issues with the sound, our resident tech wench is on the case.

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This week Megan and Jordan are joined by our first stranger! Brought to Acting Up by the podcast itself, introducing actor Ollie James Smith.
From being naughty at school to boxing for England and then finding acting when you needed it most - Ollie gets candid about how he turned his life around and began an exciting career that started with a talent for mixology and has taken him onto some incredible sets and into rooms with his heroes.
Tangents include the awful t-shirt Jordan bought Megan, using a sneaky wee to meet Jordan Peele and that one self tape that you’d fake your own death if it got leaked.
Trigger warning for mentions of suicide and discussions of weight loss, look after yourselves x 

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Leading on from the discussion of The Method, this week Megan and Jordan are now asking: why is Hollywood so obsessed with Biopics?
Bohemian Rhapsody, Elvis, Priscilla, Oppenheimer, Blonde and most recently Amy to name but a few - the film industry is well and truly saturated with Biopics, but seemingly never without controversy. But why? 
And how do we as actors fit into this body of work? Who could you play and how do you accurately replicate them? 
Lengthy tangents include Jordan’s green hand, Megan bringing forth the Snapchat renaissance, relapsing on Vinted and Jordan doing a body shot off of Megan. 

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Today Megan and Jordan are joined by the the dramatic, operatic and potentially aromatic Jenny Perry!
Opera singer and actor and model and in a band (stream Brand New Legs!) AND the list goes ON - Jenny is, was, and will be busy.
From climbing through musical grades to starting a band at Uni and finding your agent in a Tim Hortons, Jenny spills on their experience navigating the industry as someone working class, non-binary and an ex-weener.
Tangents include women playing Peter-Pan, driving like a Pisces and that time Jordan butchered Megan’s hair.

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This week we are back to just two besties in bed, and Megan and Jordan are diving under the covers and into the infamous and controversial - Method Acting.
Everyone has an idea of what it is, from sending your coworkers dead rats to the spirit of Elvis living in your accent - but is that truly The Method? 
From how it began and is implemented into actors practice to the infamous actors who just took it too far, Megan and Jordan consider their own position on the technique.
Tangents include, Jordans Soliloquy on a stagnant career, are veneers ruining Hollywood? and Megan re-entering the education system.

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