SWK78

If you have problems acting in laughing or crying, instead of useing "method" to conjure the emotion, think to yourself, "why is my character supposed to be crying / laughing/ or whatever?" I dont like to use these so called "method"s myself. Its the character's moments. No need to go putting in some stimuli from the acotr's past. I dont like that. It doesnt really quite work for me. When i act, its all from the character. like perhaps, when a director says, "how would YOU feel if someone loved you but then broke your heart?" Me? how would I feel? I first think to myself how i WOULD feel, but then the question arises, Why am I thinking about ME? I've never even had a boyfriend. How would 'I' know that? So I would look back over the course of the script, to see how the characters progressed throughout the story, and come to a conclusion on how deeply i had loved him, and see to what level of "emotional heartbreak" that that would take me to.

I care about the characters and I dont like to go messing too much of ME into them. I'm not ME in the story, I'm 'So-And-So', so i play it as 'So-And-So'. But if you find yourself unable to act out such emotion, then yes, go back and use "technique" and "method" to solve your problem.


SWK78

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