Stella Adler
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Oct 31, 2026
Todd BerlinerGUEST
But I think those two actors, Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, they couldn't work with her the way that Cassavetes did.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Beatty studied with Stella Adler.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Dustin Hoffman studied with Lee Strasberg.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Those are descendants of Stanislavski.
Moshe KasherGUEST
It's one of the ways that you express, it is a mitzvah on Tisha B'Av to weep in temple.
Moshe KasherGUEST
And so you would, I would, the only holiday I got to celebrate in the summer was like, I would go sit, you're sitting low to the ground because that's a grief posture is you sit low to the ground and all these old men rocking back and forth like, attempting to elicit tears, like a graduation ceremony from a Stella Adler acting conservatory.
Moshe KasherGUEST
And I'm like, I just fucking got here from Oakland.
Moshe KasherGUEST
I'm trying, though.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
But I think those two actors, Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, they couldn't work with her the way that Cassavetes did.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Beatty studied with Stella Adler.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Dustin Hoffman studied with Lee Strasberg.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Those are descendants of Stanislavski.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
But I think those two actors, Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, they couldn't work with her the way that Cassavetes did.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Beatty studied with Stella Adler.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Dustin Hoffman studied with Lee Strasberg.
Todd BerlinerGUEST
Those are descendants of Stanislavski.
John FardyHOST
And we're running out of time.
John FardyHOST
But you studied under Stella Adler, the great, you know, Jack Nichols, all these people who've gone through that academy.
John FardyHOST
But she got cheesed off with you because you got a job in a soap opera and left.
John FardyHOST
Is that correct?
Tom PowerHOST
I bet.
Tom PowerHOST
But you worked with, you studied with Stella Adler, who is one of the great acting teachers of all time.
Tom PowerHOST
I mean, Marilyn Brando studied with her.
Tom PowerHOST
De Niro studied with her.
Holland TaylorGUEST
And she was then about 80 and at the peak of her intellectual powers and beauty too, I might add.
Holland TaylorGUEST
And she was just a tremendous influence on my life.
Tom PowerHOST
The reason I bring her up is because when you were telling me that story about the wig and when I was learning about it, I read that Stella Adler, again, for people who don't know this, the legendary, iconic Mount Rushmore acting teacher, taught that external physical elements like costumes, wigs and props.
Tom PowerHOST
can dictate psychological reality for a actor.
Giovanni AxibalHOST
For the classes that I want to take.
Giovanni AxibalHOST
Of course, I can choose to go to conservatory, which is professional improvisers, but I was like, there are so many other amazing classes out there, technique classes such as Meisner, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, Lee Strasberg, if I want to go that route.
Giovanni AxibalHOST
And shoot, I have bigger ambitions to go to Moscow.
Giovanni AxibalHOST
Being half Filipino and half Russian, I really want to go to Russia and go to Moscow to see what the Moscow art theater is like with none other than Konstantin Stanislavski, who is the godfather of all acting.
Evelina FernándezGUEST
I mean, after Zoot Suit, yes, I did train.
Evelina FernándezGUEST
I trained with Stella Adler.
Evelina FernándezGUEST
Oh, did you really? Yeah.
Evelina FernándezGUEST
But before Zoot Suit, you know, I was just like winging it.
Cassandra MedleyGUEST
Also, you had a number of actors and actresses coming from the 30s.
Cassandra MedleyGUEST
Actually, Stella Adler, you know, who would teach and had their own schools, competitive
Janet ZarishGUEST
schools.
Janet ZarishGUEST
Did
Angel FresquetGUEST
There was Green and Green.
Angel FresquetGUEST
There was Stella Adler and Stella Gordon and Barbara DiPrima.
Angel FresquetGUEST
There was a few back in the days.
Angel FresquetGUEST
Nowadays, there's a whole bunch of new groups.
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