The Drama Division at New York's Juilliard School is considered the best in the world, and Moni Yakim is its sole inaugural faculty member still active.
Feared and revered, he is generally held back from first-year students, and to hear Oscar Isaac tell it, their delayed introduction to his demanding classes comes with a mix of excitement and dread: "Oh my gosh, get ready, 'cause Moni's gonna kill you!" Rauzar Alexander's celebratory portrait, Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy, does a fine job of tracing the formation of this staunch proponent of physical communication in acting.
But the doc neglects to explore how that discipline interlocks with other aspects of the craft. In that sense, the title is slightly misleading, unless.
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