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[–] 24855547? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I think the best actors are mentally deranged. I mean I'm an artist (music) and I think if i hadn't had such a screwed up childhood I would be relatively "normal" and probably wouldn't feel compelled to express emotion abstractly. Art is psyche. And back to actors, only the greatest ones, they've got to be crazy. Daniel day Lewis comes to mind, I've heard he completely loses his real identity when he's working on a movie. Meryl steep has to be a textbook psychopath. I don't think she does method acting, which is terrifying, because it means she actually is just that good at faking it.. Like a psychopath

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[–] 24854751? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

SOME, few, very good actors, such as Ben Kingsley, can play parts and find and present the character as written, or as actually existed.

Others like Sean Penn. Does not matter the part...it is ALWAYS Sean Penn on the screen.

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[–] 24858733? ago 

Christopher Walken is always Christopher Walken.

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[–] 24856665? ago  (edited ago)

But that does work for Sean Penn in many of his roles. Go rewatch The Thin Red Line, a lot of what both Caveizel and Penn brought to their roles was themselves, and their on-screen conflict was only a little bit fabricated becaus they really did butt heads with their incompatible outlooks on life. I found that particularly powerful and eye opening.

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[–] 24853417? 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Because celebrities are paid for “services”, acting is just pretense.