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Howard Coggins: The essence of an animal

Duration: 2 minutes 6 seconds

Actor Howard Coggins talks about how he tries to capture the essence of the animal when he plays an animal character. When he plays a cow, he does not wear a cow costume, but uses suggestive props and tries to capture the nature of a cow. Similarly when he plays a dog, he tries to think of what an animal with human qualities would be like (i.e. dogged) rather than just trying to behave like a dog.

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