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EXCLUSIVE: Larry Moss has set Helen Hunt, David Duchovny, Maggie Grace, Joan Chen and John Robinson to star in Relative Insanity, a contemporary Hampons-set adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Pier 3 Pictures’ Michael Din and Juri Henley-Cohn wrote the script and will produce with their partner Janine Giaime. Moss is an acting coach whose students have included Hunt and Duchovny, as well as Hilary Swank, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Jim Carrey, Michael Clark Duncan, Tea Leoni and Justin Timberlake. After teaching acting for 35 years, Moss is making his feature directorial debut on an adaptation of his favorite play. They’ll start shooting next year and Pier 3 is putting together the funding.
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Read Intent to Live by Moss. A must for writers and actors alike.
Larry’s skill is remembering all the actors who ever walked through his door so that when they became famous he could claim he taught them.
Nothing brings the kids into the theaters like Chekhov.
I really don’t think The Seagull can be adapted to cinema, but I will wait for them to prove me wrong.
This coach is not very good….for any actor / actress to be good , they had to have trained seriously for years, learn, hone their craft and work for years to be better…..Meryl Streep was at Yale for theater, then I think Stella Adler studio and did stage work for years, only a few good actors in Hollywood who can act…..it’s good I raised your awareness about how bad the acting is , especially in the new crop of young actresses / actors……..to be lazy and tell them to read an acting book is not enough, can a ballerina just read a book and show up to perform, or a ballerina first must learn , dedicate themselves, practice and even if they can make the cut to dance, then it takes years before they dance to perfection! Please spare me with your talentless skanky actresses and actors now who are destroying hundreds of millions of people’s money, who are stupid enough to hire them to begin with! This Larry Moss coach is new school, I don’t see a point in hiring him to direct, the actors all should go study for a few years and take their work seriously! Chekhov’s work is boring…..the writing is mediocre……do you all know who’s a real acting coach? Sanford Meisner! He’s dead! Get a grip, do you see the audience responding to any of your new talents? Pay attention to details! This whole idea is stupid, Justin Timberlake is going to b
e getting an oscar next….genius! LOL!
I love this script. Great project, great cast.
Larry Moss is a legend of an acting teacher, not because he’s into being a legend, but because he physically gets involved with his explanations much in the same way a good director does. If you get a chance, anyone in the industry should sit in on one of his workshops. Not just actors. Get a great DP on the project, there is no telling how thrilling this could be. Good luck to all.
Larry Moss is a genius with script analysis and he has made a fantastic career out of inspiring actors to be better than they ever imagined they could be. The Seagull is a brilliant play with themes that are uncannily relevant for today. I can’t wait to see what Larry and this terrific cast of actors is going to put up on the screen… working on something like this is an actor’s dream.
I’m all for new blood in Hollywood and thinking outside the box, but film is a completely different medium than than theatre. Directing a play or teaching actors may help, but film directing is an art form. A great director doesn’t rely on a great DP, he/she knows camera shots, angles, lighting, pacing, tone, sound, music, is editing the film in his head as he’s directing. Hopefully he reads a few books or at least attempts a short film (haha) before he thinks he is capable of this.
Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall come to mind — to name just a few theater directors who have gone on to direct Award-winning films
Some of the naysayers here are either:
1) Bitter and hopeless losers who wear kilts while they play bouncer at their aunt’s bar on Sunset.
2) Competitors of Moss or difficult students who blame their lack of success on having taken classes with him and then not instantly becoming successful themselves.
3) People who clearly do not see that this project actually has a shot at doing well and are bitter their derivative robot/spandex/slasher/retread/spoof project is not taking off on the cusp of the wave they were trying desperately to ride.
Its not like this project is a big tentpole with more a likelihood of failure because of the crowded marketplace and disaffected, shrinking audience base in general out there. This is a true indie as evident from the cast and pedigree. To smirk at its chances shows little faith in anything that has a voice outside of its marketing campaign.
Yeah, there are risks, but, the intent is there and that is not behind most things nowadays.
Hopefully this will be one of many upcoming indies that takes back the art form while entertaining.
A little 70′s redux which is more or less happening as we are in the 70′s again, Obama=Carter.
And the troll up there who is bitter, study your history chief. You clearly are not thinking before you type.
Well said, Chris. I hope you are a studio exec… we could really use a few people in power who have a little vision and taste — and the cajones to shun convention and take some artistic risk.
I agree with Chris–well said! To suggest that an actor must go through what a ballerina has gone through is ludicrous. The negative comments are opinions from people who see the glass as half-empty. Since there are only a few good actors, should Hollywood shut down? Does a promising indie film really need to be picked apart based on a press release? And to judge Moss based on his teaching skills, suggesting that he is oblivious to the camera shots, angles, lighting, sound, music, etc., do you know this for a fact? or is this an assumption? I look forward to this film, and applaud it’s ‘outside the box’ thinking and it’s great potential.
Interesting and diverse comments
At the end of the day it’s not the coach who is responsible for your success it’s the performer him or herself. Tiger Woods teacher was and has not been responsible for his success on the course, it’s the innate talent of the individual period. Many great actors never took a lesson in their lives, they learned by doing and had the on screen or stage presence and chemistry to thrill an audience. Finally I must say that a large majority of LA actors in particular are looking to become celebrities and less concerned with the craft itself. It’s those with a background in theater that earn professional respect and that’s where the acting skills are honed & easily adapted to film.