AMHC in the Media: Amanda Edwards featured in 'The Guardian'

The Guardian recently included our own Amanda Edwards in their article "'I demand to have some booze!': how do actors fake being drunk or on drugs?"

The piece helps contextualize the relationship between real-life and on-screen substance use in the creative workspace. Here's an excerpt:

Mental health coordinators now work across all of the major networks, according to Amanda Edwards, a therapist and intimacy coordinator who has spearheaded the movement. Coordinators support actors and crew in a similar way to their UK counterparts, and also offer guidance around the acting process itself. “It’s about how to act the thing without traumatising yourself, or risking injury to yourself,” says Edwards. This can mean finding ways to adjust an actor’s breath and how they move the muscles in their face, or modifying their speech patterns, vocal intonation and posture. “There are so many tricks that we can use so that a performer doesn’t actually have to feel or even imagine that they are feeling the effects of a substance; they can just make their body do the things it would do if it was under the influence.”

Thank you to The Guardian and writer Hannah J. Davies for exploring this topic!

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