Character Traits and Actions

from I Don't Need an Acting Class · host Milton Justice

Directors give performance or effect directions. It forces actors to play cliches. Figuring out the nature of a character trait or spine or personality frees an actor to play an action ... or an impulse ... that makes behavior more actable.

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