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Guide to Acting – Common Misconceptions part 1


00:00:00welcome to watchmojo.com my name is

00:00:03Chantry and today I’ll be talking a

00:00:05little bit about acting and the three

00:00:08most important misconceptions of acting

00:00:11first one I would say is that most

00:00:13people think it’s pretending really it

00:00:17comes from a truthful place you are

00:00:19playing a character in a different

00:00:20situation yes it may be in a different

00:00:22time but because you were playing that

00:00:24character everything has to come from

00:00:26within everything has to come from

00:00:28somewhere truthful so for example if you

00:00:31need to be angry you can’t just play the

00:00:34anger you act play why you’re angry

00:00:36where it comes from and that anger is

00:00:38really truthful that’s why a lot of

00:00:41actors have sort of like calm down and

00:00:43breathe and be themselves afterwards

00:00:45because they’re such in a moment one

00:00:50kids play they they themselves believe

00:00:55that for example there they’re being

00:00:57pirates but in their head they are

00:00:59really pirates and they’re committed to

00:01:01those characters and when they speak

00:01:03with their parents for example they

00:01:04still keep that character of being

00:01:06pirates and that’s what really is is

00:01:08just acting is just being committed to a

00:01:11situation to a character

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