“Most professional actors possess a number of skills including good vocal projection, clarity of speech, physical expressiveness and a good sense of perspective on basic life experiences. They are usually emotionally available when performing, have a well developed imagination and can understand many types of text.”
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Most professional actors possess a number of skills including good vocal projection, clarity of speech, physical expressiveness and a good sense of perspective on basic life experiences.

They are usually emotionally available when performing, have a well developed imagination and can understand many types of text.

Well-rounded actors are often also skilled in visual arts, may have learned different dialects or accents, know how to use their body language and can improve instantaneously through keen observations.

Can sports athletes be athletic gods and possess all that too?

Probably not.

LeBron James is appearing in and producing a new movie called More than a Game, which is a documentary about the relationships and adventures in basketball of himself and his teammates during the high school years.

Doesn’t he make enough money as a professional athlete?

Why does he feel the need to infringe on the acting world when there are so many actors and not enough roles?

Isn’t there an actor that could play his role?

He isn’t the only professional athlete turned actor.

Remember Shaq playing a genie in that ridiculous movie?

Jason Lee was a skateboarder in the ’90s now he is the lead in the TV series My name is Earl.

Rick Fox, LA Lakers basketball player from 2004, has appeared in a couple of episodes of Ugly Betty.

Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop their skills.

James Slowiak, theater professor on campus says, creating performance has always been much more about stimulating the total being into action, not just the mind.

Sports players may be able to stimulate action but can they reach out to the audience and capture their hearts?

Can an athlete turned actor provide a performance that radiates a change within the viewer?

Johnny Depp, one of the most versatile actors ever, has trained with Peggy Feury at Loft Studio in California for years.

His Jack Sparrow character leaps off the screen attacking our souls with his ability to make such a character become so diverse, complex and naturally conncet to our basic emotions.

Anne Hathaway, known for her lead role in The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada, has been acting on stage since she was 15 years old.

She also was a member of the Barrow Group Theater Company’s acting program in New York.

Clearly real actors take pride in their art and painstakingly study at sometimes very young ages.

Sports players need to focus on what they are good at and leave the acting to the professionals.

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