Actor Growth

Got together for our weekly meetup today and today we did scenes. While observing another pair’s scene, there was an interesting scenario where the two actors kind of had different interpretations of the scene and in turn it felt like they individually had good performances but the scene itself didn’t seem to mix.

This brought up the topic how in film if the director felt that one guy’s performance was perfect, despite what you might think you should then be able to adapt to it as oppose to just sticking to your own view of what you feel is right. Interesting point as I had to do that before during school.

In that example, the scene I thought was pretty intense as the character was being accused and blackmailed. However, the other actor was so calm. As a result, I had to rethink the scene to match the other actor’s interpretation by re-evaluating how the character thinks and sure enough it matched the other actor’s tone level.

I usually like doing scenes as it really is a test to see how well you can work with others. Unlike a monologue where in most cases it is all about you, I think scenes give you more of a challenge as you are focusing more in making the whole movie in general work.