Movie directors love to kill me. This truth didn’t dawn on me until a newspaper reporter pointed it out by asking me why it is, with alarming regularity, that I am the guy that gets beat, pulverized, and generally killed in so many of the movies I work on. Ways Actor Paul Cram’s Characters Have …
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Special effect make-up looks great. Is fun to wear while performing because of the truth it can add to a scene (nothing like a swollen-shut eye to help me get in character). But the squeaky clean feeling after scrubbing off the layers of fake blood, dirt, and latex is amazing! Just toss in a pineapple …
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In between filming scenes on-set of Dust of War with David Midthunder (Cowboys & Aliens, Hidalgo) Read about Dust of War
I’ve been asked a few times if horror movie acting is any different than acting in a drama or comedy. I’d have to say that acting in a horror movie usually means more fun for me while working on set. In the horror films that I have worked on, they’ve had me screaming and running …
I find wardrobe fittings to be a necessary evil. Necessary because it’s important to figure out what a character will look like in their clothes, and how they relate to other character’s clothes… etc. The awkwardness is that for me, the actor, I feel like am a human hanger during a fitting. I wonder if …
Sprawled on my back, I stare up at the unnatural glare of fluorescent lighting. I hear my name and feel a hand shaking my shoulder. At the same moment, flashing through my mind is that tidbit from CPR class about the importance of assessing someone’s injuries before moving them. I try slowly moving my jaw …
Looking in the full length mirror, I see my reflection staring back at me. I can’t help but chuckle as I am in a sherbert orange unitard. Taking a deep breath, I walk out onto set where I’ll be playing the role of an interpretive dancer. (For those that don’t know what a unitard is, …
From the actor’s personal website: PaulCramActor.com I have a passion for embracing a character’s internal and external life, striving to find and expose their beauty & ugliness, to tell the most compelling story. This is achieved by listening and working collaboratively with directors & writers, and studying up. Early beginnings: I started out acting in skits …
“I can be forty,” I say to myself while furrowing my eyebrows in my bathroom mirror. I don’t stop creasing my forehead and repeating my four word mantra as I drive to the Warehouse district of Minneapolis. It’s only when I walk into the casting director’s waiting room that I stop the creasing. Quickly I …
Filmed my role of KENNY in the movie “Peacock” with actor Cillian Murphy in a tiny town down past Des Moines, Iowa. While on-set Cillian and I discovered we have the same build as we were trying on zip-up sweaters. It’s rare for me to come across someone that I can toss sweaters to across …