SAG Honours: Zooey Deschanel, Emmy Rossum Share Acting Secrets

CLAIRE DANES Barbara Mathison, Homeland (Showtime)our editor recommendsEmmy Rossum on 'Shameless' Sex Moments: 'Okay, Time for you to Take My Top Off'Why Fox is Relying on Zooey Deschanel'Homeland' Star Claire Danes States the Role 'Was Impossible to Ignore' (Video)'Parenthood's' Monica Potter: Kristina's Postpartum Depression is RealRelated Subjects•The Race This isn't a job I possibly could intuit. I just read a great deal around the CIA and bpd and met having a fairly high-ranking lady who works best for the CIA. She required me to Langley, Virginia, and that i prodded her co-workers with questions. These were incredibly responsive and generous with understanding as well as their anecdotes. I additionally met having a lady named Julie Fast, who's bipolar and it has written numerous books around the condition. I labored with my pal who's a psychiatrist, who assisted me identify Barbara and offered me a lesson on medicines accustomed to address it. The heavy research Used to do for Temple Grandin prepared me with this role. There's nothing casual about playing Barbara Mathison. My First SAG Job: Like many NYers, it had been on Law & Order. I had been 12 and performed a teenage killer. Once the episode broadcast, I acquired on the subway thinking, "Do people recognize me?" I came across, Not a chance, it doesn't work like this. PHOTOS: Elle's 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute LAURA DERN Amy Jellicoe, Enlightened (Cinemax) Mike Whitened [the show creator] and that i produced Amy. It originated from my feeling -- along with a feeling that lots of have most likely felt -- there's real cultural apathy within this country but lots of rage. I needed to understand more about this rage and what goes on when it may be your finest flaw but additionally the one thing that drives you to definitely healing and effecting change on the planet. What am i saying? Since the only people taking it towards the roads are those who can't go any longer, and that we're simply because with Occupy Wall Street. I didn't need to look far outdoors myself to think about Amy, despite the fact that I'm completely different than her, since there's a seed in a lot of us that people share that Amy has. I'm a meditator of the different variety, and that i'm certainly thinking about health on all levels. I've attended spiritual training courses but possibly not with similar type of desperation mounted on it -- nothing like, "I've fallen apart, which factor better try to put me together again.Inch My First SAG Job: I had been a teenager in Adrian Lyne's 1980 film Foxes. My grandmother's favorite memory was when my SAG card arrived the mail, and that i stated, "It's time that i can get my very own banking account.Inch Then I received my salary for $9.75. PHOTOS: Behind the curtain of 'New Girl' ZOOEY DESCHANEL Jess Day, New Girl (Fox) Employed in TV means less spare time to organize, but that's good -- which means additional time on set to experiment and extremely become familiar with the figures. Jess is extremely wacky, silly and excitable and finds pleasure in many things. I'm very excitable and emotional too, in order to connect with that. My approach has were rather more intellectual, and that i enjoy doing television because I'm able to explore things each week which i wouldn't have experienced the runway space to complete before, and going through the physical comedy part continues to be really fun. I've always performed figures which are kind of removed and ones you don't really reach explore psychologically New Girl has given me an opportunity to really accept a personality. It's been great." My First SAG Job: A chapter of Veronica's Closet. I had been in senior high school. My parents wouldn't allow me to do auditions until I possibly could drive myself. MONICA POTTER Kristina Braverman, Being a parent (NBC) Kristina is definitely crying due to what's happening in her own existence. And So I do not overthink it -- I attempt to simply whether it is. However I always stay inside the frame of the items's right. We now have amazing authors. I sometimes get swept up around the words and obtain really nervous about saying them exactly as our biological forebears're written because my first show was Boston Legal with David E. Kelley. With him, you are able to't ad-lib anything. Sometimes I add my very own little Monica-isms sometimes they stick, sometimes they don't. Once they do, my loved ones spots them. For me personally, it's about being relaxed and never trying so difficult -- rather, breathing and finding yourself in as soon as. I learned acting on the way -- I didn't study it in class -- and so i do not discuss acting techniques any longer. I don't seem like I understand things i'm doing fully. My First SAG Job: A [the nineteen nineties] Peruvian kids' game show known as Nubeluz. I needed to liven up just like a cloud and fly with the air. VIDEO: 'Shameless' Season Two Sneak Look EMMY ROSSUM Fiona Gallagher, Shameless (Showtime) I have a white board during my office that charts how Fiona's feelings develop from episode to episode. That allows me visualize, inside a large-picture way, how her emotional existence tracks with every character. To experience her, I began from the host to seem: how she spoke rhythmically, how she walked. I never attempted to experience her in ways that's sexy, also it's strange in my experience that males discover the character of Fiona sexy. She doesn't fashion herself up. There's no vanity about her the greater dark circles under my eyes, the greater it's for that show. Personally i think a feeling of connectivity to her it's less difficult to get that devote my body system. My very own father left after i is at utero, also it's been a really painful factor for me personally that Fiona also offers a boy-of-a-bitch father but nonetheless wants his approval and love. There's this horrible sense of digging around something which was completely offer mattress, yet there's a continuing storm brewing underneath. This task has truly helped me pry up. My First SAG Job: On Because the World Turns. I performed Holden and Molly's daughter Abigail. I frantically wanted the part. I had been 11 coupled with been studying X and Y chromosomes, dominant genes and recessive genes. I viewed the show yesterday my audition and recognized the 2 stars who performed the mother and father both had blue eyes. I'd just learned in class that two blue-eyed parents can't possess a brown-eyed child. And So I went in to the audition and stated when they wanted me, I'd go get contact contacts to possess blue eyes. They cast me and stated, "Make certain she brings her contacts." KATEY SAGAL Gemma Teller Morrow, Sons of Anarchy (Forex) Wardrobe, hair and makeup -- it's all essential to Gemma because I don't look anything like her during my regular existence. I placed on the tats and individuals high biker boots, there's another energy. We sometimes'll perform a take, and also the camera guy will say: "We are able to't call at your ft. You don't need to put on your footwear." However they bring an important energy. TV is really fast you need to do your research. It's nothing like in film, in which you're getting 25 takes. I still use an acting coach I've always labored having a coach. It enables me arrive at the set getting attempted various things because after i make it happen, I understand I'm not getting lots of shots in internet marketing. My First SAG Job: The Failing of Raymond, a 1971 TV movie with Dean Stockwell and Jane Wyman. It had been in regards to a teacher who finds out that the student she flunked is to kill her. I had been 17, and i believe I'd one line. My dad [Boris Sagal] was the director, and that he wanted me to possess a union card. I truly just thought about being a music performer, but my father really was wise and that he understood I desired a union card. Related Subjects SAG Honours Emmy Rossum Laura Dern Zooey Deschanel Claire Danes Katey Sagal SAG Honours 2012