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<p>And don’t believe the hype about Jennifer Lawrence, either. It’s one of those carefully constructed media images about which I’ve spoken before. Have you noticed that her family just happens to have a house in Santa Monica? Her mom’s a producer and she’s been studying acting with some of the best private coaches in the business since she was knee high to a grasshopper. People used to say the same things about DiCaprio, but it turns out he didn’t go to the bathroom without first consulting Janet Alhanti or Larry Moss for years. A lot of these people never went to college, but don’t think for a second that they aren’t trained … </p>
<p>As for the gap year thing, I’m with madbean that she may as well do it in LA or NYC if she has the maturity to pull it off. One of the criticisms of college training as it pertains to screen acting is that the actor spends his or her most marketable years in school although I personally think that really only applies to extremely gorgeous ingenue types. Craft training is definitely important, however, and for the record I already suggested a few good places to look into for that in LA here although it turned out I’d somewhat misunderstood Threed’s original post … <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15363286-post4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/15363286-post4.html</a> And some good places in New York are Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Atlantic Acting School, Circle in the Square Theatre School, William Esper Studio, Maggie Flanigan Studio, Michael Howard Studio, The Neighborhood Playhouse, and T. Schreiber Studio. </p>
<p>The thing is, doing that really wouldn’t be much less expensive than college if you’re footing the bill for living expenses and whatnot.</p>