TEH_10. GOING NATIVE talk with Tony Corvillo (part I)

TEH_10.  GOING NATIVE talk with  Tony Corvillo  (part I)

TODAY at our listening test with The English Hour, Neil Stokes interviews actor Toni Corvillo   (until minute 10:00)

http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/244311216.html

(17/09/2017)   Correspondent: Judit Ruiz

For our first part, listen up to the minute 10, taking NOTES on these 9 questions:

       Q1_ When did he graduate? what put him in the track of acting studies?

Q2_  How What was his first learning course? which specialty/skills? successful?  

Q3_  How indirect was his approach at acting?  

Q4_  What does he tell us about his acting experience in the states?  

Q5_  In what sense did English language affected his schooling life?  

Q6_  What experience set the wheels in motion for him to realise what he want to do?  

Q7_  How does he remember performing it in class? his classmates reactions?  

Q8_  What did he ponder at that moment?  

Q9_  What does he say about the ups and downs in being a professional actor? 

you may find the rest of the interview Q10-18 at next entry.

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       TEH_10a.  GOING NATIVE talk with  Tony Corvillo  (part I)  ........ KEY 

Q1_ When did he graduate? what put him in the track of acting studies?

Toni graduated in 2003, but he started many years earlier. He got a low mark at Selectivitat (State A-levels tests) so he could not go to his preferred studies.. (0:53 ->)

Q2_  How What was his first learning course? which specialty/skills? successful?

First, Toni went to a course for flight attendant in Catalonia. He sent resumees to many companies home and abroad. No responses. He wasted his money as he never got to work as one. (1:50 --->)

Q3_  How indirect was his approach at acting?

He  got an advert about an audition at the Theatre school, passed it and at the end of the first year he got top grades. (2:25 --->)
Q4_  What does he tell us about his acting experience in the states?

Cold very cold. He went to Winsconsing University with no English skills, only the ones you acquire at school level. Now, looking back at these experiences, he ponders it was as great as it was tough. (4:05 --->)

Q5_  In what sense did English language affected his schooling life?

At the first semester I couldn´t get any credits because I didn’t have the toefl and the first certificate yet. He couldn't follow normal courses as he spent too much time with foreigners in a "English learning classroom"  with not very friendly atmosphere (4:40 --->)

Q6_  What experience set the wheels in motion for him to realise what he want to do?

Time earlier, while he was still in bcn, he had a clear moment writing a monologue for their final exam in class. It was scribbled in Balmes street in a Creperia next to Plaza Molina.  (6:02 --->)

Q7_  How does he remember performing it in class? his classmates reactions?

The performance was sad and when it finalize I looked all my classmates and succeeding at making the audience cry,  teacher included. So he thought it is amazing, and realised that Theatre is  cool. (6:32 --->)

Q8_  What did he ponder at that moment?

I thought that in this kind of job you can work at a supermarket or whatever and in consequence it´s the most powerful job in the world. You can make people laugh, cry and whatever you want. You only pretend move people. (7:02 --->)

Q9_  What does he say about the ups and downs in being a professional actor?

He also teaches. Lesson one: he respects his chosen profession for it. Being not famous, he is well aware of "Who knows if you are going to be working tomorow?". Nothing taken for granted! (8:12 --->)

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