Internationally-acclaimed acting coach Ivana Chubbuck will be holding her two-day workshop for actors of Star Magic and ABS-CBN actors

Internationally-acclaimed acting coach Ivana Chubbuck is once again coming back to Manila to further honeartists not only as performers but also as winner in life.

Ivana will be holding her two-day workshop for actors of Star Magic and ABS-CBN actors on October 6 and 7 at the Dolphy Theater. She is best known for being an acting coach to Academy Award Winners and Nominees such as Gadot, Halle Berry, Jared Leto, Sylvester Stallone, Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey, Charlize Theron, BeyoInternationally-acclaimed acting coach Ivana Chubbuck is once again coming back to Manila to further honeartists not only as performers but also as winner in life.

After visiting for the first time in 2014 to introduce her famous Chubbuck Acting Technique, then validating the approach in her 2016 visit, this time, Star Magic Artist Training Head Rahyan Carlos explains that Ivana's visit would center on the strengthening of her brand of acting that would enable the actors to #DiscoverYourPower

During the media conference of Ivana Chubbuck, she answer some of the question of the media and here are some of the interesting topic.

Was there an understanding that Ivana will come back every other year?

"I felt that the talent based was so available and accessible, and this is a kind of thing that motivates me and inspires me. It's not that I wanted to come back, I needed to come back because, I'm inspired. That is something that creates me.... it feels like yesterday, it feel like I just returned back to L.A. and then came back, because I feel like I'm at home. The actors that I've been working with, have been so available and open to me. It helps me to be able to learn and grow as well. So, I will be walking away from this third workshop even more knowledgeable of how to teach and how to empower and how to help them help me to be a better educator. Because education is all about learning, not just from the students but from the educator themselves and I feel that I learn a lot when I come here. So you can't get rid of me guys, I'm coming back. I'm here and I'm coming back and then I'm coming back. And then after I die I'll stop, but then I'll still try to figure out how to comeback."

Is there a certain characteristic or a certain technique that is unique to the Filipino actors?

"There is no real difference in the human animal, look at the science of being a human being. The bottomline is that we all have the same primal needs. We all need to be loved, we all need to have a family. Those are the primal realities that exist with everybody. It was also interesting and facilitating is that everybody seems to have the same fears, same insecurities, the same issues with their mates, the same issues of abandonment, the same issues of feeling not nourtured, and on and on and on. That idea of culture really comes from how we manifest our needs. That's where culture comes in. I studied when I was in school, the base of my technique are all from the sciences. So, I studied behavioral science, I studied psychology, and I studied cultural anthropology which is the history of culture.

And people all over the world, with different religion, different human realities, different geography. Again, there's a primal constant that exists. So in terms of the human animal there are certain constants that I apply so that it allows the actors from the Philippines or wherever to become universal to be able create a universal message. One that the world can relate to. We are not just trying to make the best actors for the Philippines. Let's share the wealth of you got. Filipinos are very humble, wonderful, generous people with strong richness of history. That needs to be brought to the world stage, everybody needs to know that the people here, the artist has something special to share with the world and I wanted to be part of that journey. By creating a universal underbelly  that makes everybody in the world no matter what language you speak, religion that you follow, or the social hierarchy that you existed with in. Is that like the people could relate to you and say, I get your journey. I get your pain in striving your journey. I relate to it. Therefore I need to see it again and again. To see you again and again, and the star is born or movie that needs to be see by the world. Because we are dealing with primal constants.

Like David Ayer is a director and David has been with me for fifteen years, same things I don't change the technique, for being a director. It's the  same constant, find the human equation, find the need of something that the artist themselves need to solve and find their way to the journey as a character and to their own journey to be able to solve an issue that they are currently dealing with. Chances are there's a good part of the population of the world that's going through the same thing. You do that and all of the sudden the world is yours and I want to be part of that journey, it's my honor to do so."


Can I ask you critique the works of your previous students?

One of the thing that makes my work so effective is the privacy of it, and the idea that people feel comfortable to not only reveal their insecurities, fears, the dark places of who you are and your colors, but you have to feel safe at the environment.

Charlize Theron said it best, when she talked about me on a T.V. show called Inside The Actors Studio. She said I learned more when fell on my face on Ivana's class, that I did it well. And so learn more only in any circumstance when you fall and then you have to pick yourself up and say the next time you have to learned from my mistakes. And that's what the process of education is about. Learn from those mistakes, you add to the information and so for me to critique in a public environment is taking away to safety that makes my people grow so quickly. Because in every school I do all over the world, people do not talk about what they hear, everybody is their private community. Allowing  them to safely being able to really explore the things that make them artists. And you have to feel safe. So, for me in anyway to reveal my judgment which I try not ever do anyway.

Would you say that actors are born or made?

"Well that's the whole thing about nurture vs. nature, you know the whole idea of what makes a person a person. Part of it is nurture, part of it  how you taught about how to be human being. Some it is genetic, some of it is nurture that's how you are being brought up by your parenting and your siblings and by your connection to your peers. You could be like innately inherit talented but not educate yourself in it, and never really find a claim. You could also be someone who works so hard to have this innate talent from nature but, work so hard, who really willing to take the risk of being really being open and exploring growth to the point of taking huge risk in their forward motion. Those are the people that will have great success. It's really part of the journey of the human being themselves, you got to work hard in anything that you do. If you want success work hard for it and be fearless in taking risk in choices you make.

In terms of success and talent it really is up to you take that information and be able to do something in any field. Working hard and taking risks and not playing it safe is a success quotient  in anything."

What does it take to be a good actor?

Hard work, taking risks, and not playing safe. Putting yourself in a position that people will not like you. If you people please, in any way what so ever. In any environment for those people who you wanted to hangout with as friends, lovers or people in the job. If you people please, people are annoyed by that. The same thing is that have to do is how the need of the character, find it how personalizes from your own life that there's a necessary need to accomplish your goal with the environment of the script.

What would be your advise to the people who's about to give up their dreams in the entertainment industry?

"Don't ever give up your dreams to do anything. Always follow your dreams. Because if you don't keep on trying, you will never gonna have it. It's not gonna knock on your door. What you have to do is you get to go after it. Be proactive, go after your dreams, sometimes it takes longer, sometimes its shorter. If you are really proactive about making it happen not waiting for people to do something for you. Don't be entitled, be proactive. You can get anything you want, dreams are meant to be got or make happen." -Ivana Chubbuck

Be an observer at Hollywood acting coach Ivana Chubbuck's masterclass at the Dolphy Theater this October 6 and 7. For inquiries, visit the Star Magic Workshops' official Facebook page at
https:/www.facebook.com/starmagicworkshops! or call them at 4152272 local 5243, 5244 & 5142 from Mondays to Fridays 1pm to 5pm. You may also email them at starmagicworkshops@abs-cbn.com.

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