Holland Taylor on studying with the great Stella Adler

The wonderful Emmy award winning actress, Holland Taylor, discusses how she came to study with legendary acting teacher, Stella Adler. Taylor talks about Adler’s techniques, based on the later work of Stanislavsky, and how Adler found an individual’s “emotional memory“ insufficient for the great dramatic texts. She briefly highlights Justification, Actions, imagination and how actions evokes emotions, researching the historical and social circumstances of a play and creating a rich, vivid past for your