It's a wrap

Photo by: Mariam Arthur
David Bradley with KMY Films CEO Mariam Arthur in the actor's home town in Texas, 2006.

via CAAI

Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:57 Brooke Lewis

A Hollywood talent cancelled acting classes scheduled to start Monday because Cambodian stars were too arrogant to concede that they needed to hone their craft, an organiser said yesterday.

The three-week method acting course was to be taught by American actor David Bradley, an ex-Karate champion who in 1989 “became a star after becoming the 2nd American Ninja in The American Ninja Part 3”, according to the Internet Movie Database.

But Marian Arthur, CEO of KMY Films, a Cambodian-based film distribution company, said yesterday that Bradley had cancelled his flight to the Kingdom because of low rates of enrolment in the classes.

“Many of the current actors did not sign up because they said they already know how to act,” she said in an email yesterday.

“Several others said they don’t care about learning how to act because they just used acting jobs to become celebrities and they if they learn to act they will have to actually work. They have lost my respect.”

She said she had approached Bradley, a personal friend, and asked him to teach the classes because she believed that Khmer actors would respond well to him.

“He really has that Asian Zen-like attitude,” she said. “He’s very quiet and very strong.”...read the full story in tomorrow’s Phnom Penh Post or see the updated story online from 3PM UTC/GMT +7 hours.