Rihanna

He was kind of still just like pretending I did not exist during this period.

We would have brief interactions and then nothing for months.

But yeah, I did not have a class with him.

my freshman year.

Disgusting.

It's why I feel like I will never be able to act again or find joy in acting.

I think that's another really big reason that he was able to get his claws in so deep.

Maybe Meisner can be an effective acting method, but he used it as a tool to get you to experience deep and intense emotion and then control when those emotions happen.

It was, looking back on it now, like actually nightmarish in the moment.

I just remember thinking, oh my God, I'm a real actor.

This is so special.

How great of a teacher is he that I can feel all of this?

I was at a high school event and he had these two high school students doing Meisner repetitions until they sobbed.

And he's not their teacher.

He doesn't know these students.

He has met them briefly for a moment and is now engaging in what I believe to be incredibly an unsafe acting instruction.

It was just another tool of abuse that he loved to use.

Oh, the most.

I mean, he was the head theater person.

If you needed advisement, if you needed anything involving the theater department,