What Actors Can Learn From Walt Whitman by Chasen Schneider

What Actors Can Learn From Walt Whitman by Chasen Schneider

Film Courage: I understand you are a poet and you enjoy reading others’ poetry. Is there a poem by a poet that you admire that describes your life as an actor?

Chasen Schneider: Hhmmm…

Film Courage: Whether it’s struggle, whether it’s fun, interesting, fascinating.

Chasen: Not a poem about acting. Song of Myself which is a Walt Whitman poem, which is about America and all the different elements. I think that is a poem I really related to. He (Whitman) tried to see everything. He tried to see the animals, the plants, the human body, he saw the politician, he saw all the different workers in the city,
 he saw the cities, he saw the plains, he saw the different parts of America. He saw that it was the poet’s job to bring all these different elements, both the psychical, the emotional, the personal, the public, and bring them all together and express the meaning, essence and perception of those and it was his job to communicate that. So I think he was trying to be aware….(read more here via FilmCourage.com)