ヤニ・ゲルマンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ヤニ・ゲルマンInstagram)「It’s been a year since my acting coach, Stan Kirsch, passed away. I met Stan about 15 years ago when I first moved to Los Angeles. It was such a big city that was so different. I was so scared. I had no idea what I was doing as an actor, or in my life, really. Every audition filled me with anxiety and dread. I somehow felt compelled to follow this path but had no idea how. I felt lost and alone. I had this self-critical voice in my head, constantly beating myself up - I should be enjoying my life, this new exciting time, but it really was the opposite of that. I was so nervous to even attend an acting class. Somehow I heard about Stan’s class, and with nowhere else to really go, I showed up. It’s difficult to explain what it was like to spend even five minutes in his presence. Stan was easily the funniest, most charming, and most handsome person in the room, but somehow he always made you feel like the star. He taught us all so many techniques that immediately gave us the tools to prepare our roles and start giving great auditions. If any of us was lucky enough to book a role, how to hold our own on film sets with far more experienced actors. But the most important thing he ever taught us was that we are epic and to love ourselves. To be honest, it’s not something I had ever really heard or felt before. I always just thought I wasn’t good enough - and here was this movie star who came along and took us all, sometimes quite literally by the hand, and forced us through his own sheer will and enthusiasm, to believe in ourselves. To love ourselves. He spent hours and hours pumping that into us - no matter what shape I ever arrived in to class, I would leave feeling reborn, able to take on the stresses that were sure to come my way by the next class. Eventually I internalized that voice, and when I started helping my friends with their auditions, as we all did back then and still do, even if I hadn’t fully mastered the acting techniques to teach them, I made sure to try and convince them of how awesome they were. “You got this. You can do this. You are epic.” That was Stan. That was Stan’s voice.」1月12日 6時14分