The 12 Days of Dori – Day 11

Middle-earth News: How do you make your choices of what projects and roles to play? And when you choose, how do you prepare for a role? Where do you start?

Mark Hadlow: Work is a priority. But the work has to challenge and excite. Being an actor requires constant upgrade. You can’t just settle and sit on your laurels. I regard next projects as the key to becoming more adaptable and staying abreast of advances and new processes. Learning lines is a memory exercise and if you leave it too long it is really hard to re engage, so I never stop auditioning and grafting for work. Roles now have to be advantageous and encourage me to step outside the box a little and stimulate. So I choose carefully and when I have made a choice or been offered a role I get as much information and research it and look at all the options that my character could portray. Such as voice, accent, physical appearance and character traits.

Tomorrow: For our final day, Mark Hadlow discusses his current projects and those in the works on The 12 Days of Dori – Day 12.

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The 12 Days of Dori – Day 1

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The 12 Days of Dori – Day 3

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 4

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 5

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 6

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 7

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 8

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 9

The 12 Days of Dori – Day 10