SagsWay2low said:

When Prince is on stage or doing interviews....He's acting.

I think he's an ok actor. Graffiti Bridge was terrible because of his directing--not his acting.

He's far, far, faaaaaarrrr better than many of the singers that have been given movie roles

(except Cher of course).

Well said. He's always acting in his "persona", even when he's joking in interviews it seems rehearsed.

This is exactly why I think Prince actually has good acting skills. He acts in every live performance he does. Much of it is choreographed, scripted even. His reaction to playing certain songs, acting excited and all that. His acting skills come into play because he makes it all seem fresh and off the cuff.

With that said, after Purple Rain, I always thought Prince would be great in a horror movie. He has a very dark vibe about him. I guess it helps that I'm a big horror movie geek.

formallypickles said:

lPoeticl said:

Rumor:

Heard from someone last night that he was in fact doing another movie... but not like any of his others...

Why kinda of movie? give us details!

To be honest I don't know... Some guy I saw at the concert said he was coming out with a movie this summer.... This is the first I've heard... So no details sorry... but I will look for something...

NightGod said:

davetherave6767 said:

We have all had a laugh when prince gets shot at end of cherry moon that was funny as fuck,but the bit in purple rain when his mum is crying on bed and prince says ma,now that was good.

Yes overly dramatic

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I agree with Genesia that Prince is too established to be an actor now.

But back then when I first watched PR I didn't think Prince was a good actor either. I haven't seen GB.

An actor needs to be able to take on a role outside and unlike themself to make it real. As people have mentioned, a script around Prince as a main character and in a musical role, just doesn't fit.

Prince seemed more like himself in those films which don't make it acting. Sure, his onstage persona is a type of characteristic personality, but when you're playing with music i.e. dancing or actually playing the music, that is not an act but an extension of oneself, I think, not an act.

prince is a brilliant actor. films tv interviews on stage meeting people..its got to be hard having constant attention-and he keeps us guessing as to what he's up to. he keeps us hooked. to me, that is one hell of a fine actor.

Bohemian67 said:

I agree with Genesia that Prince is too established to be an actor now.

But back then when I first watched PR I didn't think Prince was a good actor either. I haven't seen GB.

An actor needs to be able to take on a role outside and unlike themself to make it real. As people have mentioned, a script around Prince as a main character and in a musical role, just doesn't fit.

Prince seemed more like himself in those films which don't make it acting. Sure, his onstage persona is a type of characteristic personality, but when you're playing with music i.e. dancing or actually playing the music, that is not an act but an extension of oneself, I think, not an act.

Not necessarily.

You can't really be anybody but yourself. So acting is about finding the things in yourself (the actor) that would enable you to behave the way the character does. If you're playing a murderer (for example), you have to find the part of yourself that could kill - and, perhaps more importantly, justify killing - someone under the circumstances the playwright has created.

Obviously, an actor has to dig deeper to "discover" some things than others. Prince knows what it's like to be a musician, so he didn't have to dig very deeply to play a musician. He'd have to dig deeper to play an unsuccessful musician, but he isn't without resources in that regard, either.

What he does have are a fairly broad range of life experiences and an extremely vivid imagination. Those are the two most important tools an actor can possess. What he doesn't have is a total willingness to lay bare every facet of his personality. A character can be guarded - but an actor can't.

Prince would have to totally shatter the persona he's built so carefully over a span of more than 30 years in order to be a successful actor. I'm not sure he's even capable of it, at this point.

Maybe I don't use the right words to explain what I mean. I take Meryl Streep as an example. How she's able to let the audience totally forget who SHE is and takes on such a convincing role, WITHOUT being herself and thus fits so many different roles well. This article explains it better than I can about her.

"Turning off one's own reality and emotions to channel and convincingly portray a character’s reality and emotions, on cue, is kind of a remarkable feat and not something most people do — or can do. Streep's uncanny ability to betray her own reality and project the emotions and reality of another person, another character is why she's considered one of the greatest living film actresses of our time." http://www.utexas.edu/kno...eep_meryl/

So they say it is not about bearing every facet of the actor's personality but "betraying their own reality" (which is what I meant) to take on that of "another," like you said, to portray the role.

lPoeticl said:

formallypickles said:

Why kinda of movie? give us details!

To be honest I don't know... Some guy I saw at the concert said he was coming out with a movie this summer.... This is the first I've heard... So no details sorry... but I will look for something...

It could be 3121.

NouveauDance said:

1984 was a long time ago, and I get the feeling playing an insular moody asshole wasn't that much of a stretch.

If Prince is reading this, you definitely sparked the sequel: "No more Candy 4 U 2" But it doesn't mean that I disagree.

Prince's best acting skills have to be that scene where he is at a theater with Troy watching Barbarella from 3 Chains o Gold video. I was convinced Prince was convinced he could do a over the top kissing scene that even John Waters curses he never thought of.