THE IMPECCABLE TALENT OF ELLINOR TAFLIN

Ellinor Taflin accomplishing amazing things in the acting world

What does it take to make it in Hollywood?  Apparently it takes a great deal of endurance, persistence and a lot of drive to succeed. At least that’s what we got when we talked to Ellinor Taflin. She moved to Los Angeles to be at the epicenter of the entertainment industry and she is from Sweden. Sure, they have a film industry over there and some great movies and directors and actors have come from that beautiful country, but somehow most actors, if they want to really get great roles and be in some of the best movies in the world, always come to Hollywood.

 

Ellinor fell in love with movies and acting when she was just a little girl and she got into theater when she seven. She still remembers acting in plays that her and her little friends made up and how she loved the magic of movies that always had the most interesting characters and transported her to new worlds. She loves the theater but movies, she says, are fascinating because you can create anything. In theatrical plays it is much more difficult for the audience to suspend disbelief simply because of the way the sets and the backgrounds look = fake. With motion pictures, however, reality can be created through special effects or by shooting on a real location.

 

She studied acting in Sweden but got much more extensive training in London where she immersed herself in the Meisner technique. She then traveled to the states and attended the New York Film Academy, where she continued her training in Meisner but got a taste of different acting techniques such as Method, Stella Adler, Hagen, Spolin, Chekhov and Stanislavsky. She did plenty of Shakespeare, which is always very beneficial for any actor as it is so different from the modern style of acting. She loved performing in the Bard’s plays and she said that it takes a lot of practice, even though it always came sort of easy to her. She believes the reason it might have come more easily to her than some of her peers might be because she has always been so interested in Shakespeare. She had seen several of his plays both before and after she had been in any herself. Ellinor has been in countless stage plays and numerous films and just wrapped up co-producing a short film called Bloggers, which she will also perform in.