Be you. Or not you.

Dear Blog Diary,

Missed a month of posting. 

I told myself I would write a piece every week. Just something I’d like to do for personal and professional reasons. Plus I like to bullshit myself taking artsy fartsy photos that I think are aesthetically pleasing, in black and white, obviously. 

Maybe I’ve been living too much lately, or maybe not enough to have perspective. It’s an odd thing because I’ve been really indulging in the things that interest me, and yet I haven’t felt much like myself. It’s not a deep wound. More like a bunch of paper cuts. Annoying as fuck. Still moving ahead but high gravity. …

It is my opinion that the UNDISPUTED most underrated actor is…Andy Serkis. 

This is a man who played Gollum, Caesar from Planet of the Apes, Baloo in Jungle Book, (movie sucked but he was cool) Snoke from Star Wars, not to mention The Batman’s Alfred and his work in the MCU. 

Notice the first roles? This is a man you may not even know his name or even his face because his craft is so rooted in digital graphics mimicking his face and body to produce a brilliant performance. Have you seen the footage of him crawling like Gollum? Forget the voice and the humanity and cruelty he brought to the role, challenging our ideas about addiction. To be covered in tech in a room and then give us a face you instantly know and you don’t even consider the actor who played him, taking the role so far from himself, let’s all say it on three. 1-2-3 Halleluuuuuuujah.

Don’t sleep on Planet of the Apes trilogy either. 

He’s an icon in his own right and the majority of his spectacular roles are when he is never being even close to himself.

I say all this to say, sometimes in life when you don’t really feel like yourself, that’s just part of it, and sometimes you’re just playing a role that many might find to be brilliant. You just don’t know it. 

Best,

E

#ARTiculate