‘Love’ Star Gillian Jacobs: ‘Juilliard F—ed Me Up’ (Video)
“Juilliard f—ed me up, and it took me years afterwards to realize what was worthy at all about myself,” Jacobs said Tuesday at TheWrap’s Emmy comedic actors panel.
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After fellow panelists William H. Macy (“Shameless”), Kaitlin Olson (“The Mick”), and Kumail Nanjiani and Thomas Middleditch (“Silicon Valley”) talked about getting over their acting insecurities, Jacobs said that formal training at Juilliard actually messed with her mind — because she was discouraged from doing one of the things she did best.
Never bring in a scene like that again.’
[...] [Juilliard] took away the joy and gave me technique, so there were a couple of years out of college where I had to find the joy again.
Jacobs talks about her experience at Juilliard at the 38:30 mark in the video above, but honestly, you should watch the whole thing.