To think very few actors can act drunk convincingly?

[Toopulululu]

Just that really, especially on soaps. They just don’t seem to be able to do it convincingly. Can anyone act drunk convincingly without actually getting drunk?

Yes. Don’t think he is ever trying to act drunk.

the swaying is only on dry land he’s steady as a rock on a boat.

First person I thought of was Rab C Nesbit - Gregor Fisher...
Beat it!

The dad in Rita Sue and Bob too was a very convincing drunk

Liev Scheiber in Ray Donovan. There was a scene where his character was very drunk and he went downstairs and danced with his son to Walk This Way. Perfect drunken acting.

Still watching Ray Donovan and it's overstayed its welcome. Brilliant when it started and now I'm waiting for it to end because I'm bored with it.

*Schrieber even

rikki fulton on scotch and wry

and bradley cooper in a star is born

Oh yes Bradley Cooper did drunk brilliantly ❤️

I think portraying someone having a seizure is harder. At least if you’re playing a drunk and all else fails, you could trying having a few drinks.

One soap character had a seizure after taking drugs and just looked as though he was lazing around and trying to scratch his back on the floor. In another soap, a character was diagnosed with epilepsy and had several seizures. The actor struggled with these scenes so much, that he started conveniently collapsing behind a piece of furniture,so you could only see his lower legs and feet.

Richard E Grant does it very well in Withnail and I.

Please help us. We've come on holiday, by mistake!

Nicholas Cage was actually drunk for a lot of Leaving Las Vegas.
All of the best drunk acting I know of, the actors were actually drunk.
Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa, genuinely drunk during filming.
Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, the scene when he freaked out, really intoxicated.
Practical Magic, Sandra Bullock/ Nicole Kidman/ Stockard Channing & Diane Wiest, in the scene where they have the midnight margueritas in the kitchen, they were really pissed.
Fight Club, the scene where Tyler Durden and well, Tyler Durden, are drunk with golf clubs, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt got drunk on set and started hitting golf balls at catering trucks. The director thought it fit the characters and wrote it into the movie.

@Toopulululu Jealous that you saw Prima Facie live! I've seen it twice but both National Theatre broadcasts, once in the cinema and once at home.

Selina Griffiths as Pauline in Benidorm was brilliant! She doesn't drink in real life either.

we just rewatched Superbad and the teenage girl Becca does a great job of 'wasted inexperienced teenager trying to be sexy' v cringe.

Grace Kelly in High Society was excellent and very irritating, which is what most drunk people are, let's face it.

I think Kellie Bright on Eastenders can do it really well. I remember her saying when they first started doing Linda’s alcohol storyline that she wanted it to be convincing, so she researched it a lot and found that when people are so far gone they go past the lairy stage and go into a sort of quiet zombie like state. And she’s really good at acting that.

Ray Winston in Nil By Mouth. Slurry and scary. It's hard to pull off.

My 10 yr old DD just landed the role of Ms Hannigan in her drama school play. She isn't a great singer but claims she didn't need to sing well just sing drunk, and according to herself she plays a great drunk. I think I'm proud!!?

I agree with John Dunsworth in Trailer Park Boys, he's excellent and Richard E Grant in Withnail and I (I watched it today).

Yes, it's often done badly, staggering and slurring.

Saw "All Of Us Strangers" the other day and thought Paul Mescal did it brilliantly in the scene where he and Andrew Scott first meet. But then realized he wasn't actually doing much really - he was a bit glassy-eyed but it was more in the writing, in the stuff he was saying - just getting too personal too quickly with a stranger. Truth is, there isn't really any such thing as "acting drunk" because it takes different people in very different ways. It's got to be conveyed in the writing and the acting of the sober characters (in their reactions to the drunk one) that the drunk one is acting out of character.

Richard E Grant?

I don’t think it is at all possible to “act drunk” or “act sober” when you’re drunk. Being drunk does not mean being loud/rowdy/clumsy. It’s a physiological body response above all else, you can’t quite fake it - the flushed cheeks, the glassy eyes.

yes this. I read that he filmed himself while drunk to act to that. I suspect he was drunk for filming though. he deserved his oscar.

Yes this as well!

As usual not as good as the book but well worth a watch.