I'm odd about it. I'm not interested in the personal lives of the actors nor am I interested in how great they look or the fannish aspects I've seen online (ie. all the photos, although those are nice, I guess). No what fascinates me is their process - how they embody the role, how they develop the character. Part of the reason this fascinates me so much is I explored acting extensively as a child and adolescent and read a great deal about acting methods. The other reason is what people do for a living, regardless of what it is, fascinates. I find myself captivated by interviews with actors that delve into what their work day is like, how they read a script, how they analyze a role, what tools they use to create it. Many fans think the actor just shows up and reads the lines given, but about 65% of what you see onscreen is the actor - what they bring to it. There's a great interview with Christopher Walken - where he states how whenever he gets a script the first thing he does is kill all the punctuation, because from his pov that is up to the actor to figure out. An actor can take a horrid line and make it brilliant just by leaving out a word or take a wonderful line and make it horrid by doing the same thing.
Ask yourself - would you have liked Connor if Tom Lenk or Danny Strong or Daniel Radcliff had played the role?
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Re: Kartheiser
Date: 2005-11-29 03:36 pm (UTC)I find myself captivated by interviews with actors that delve into what their work day is like, how they read a script, how they analyze a role, what tools they use to create it. Many fans think the actor just shows up and reads the lines given, but about 65% of what you see onscreen is the actor - what they bring to it. There's a great interview with Christopher Walken - where he states how whenever he gets a script the first thing he does is kill all the punctuation, because from his pov that is up to the actor to figure out. An actor can take a horrid line and make it brilliant just by leaving out a word or take a wonderful line and make it horrid by doing the same thing.
Ask yourself - would you have liked Connor if Tom Lenk or Danny Strong or Daniel Radcliff had played the role?