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Acting, can or do you act?

TheCatWoman

I've never really been into acting or drama and I don't think I could do it, or rather not screen acting, I think I could do theatre, I can't get my head around how to act disconnected scenes rather than a whole dialogue thing. It would really discombobulate me if I had act scenes out of sequence because of locations, like if part of the film was outside a stately home and all the scenes inside were filmed in a studio and you had to do all your pieces muddled up.

Sorry I'm not explaining this very well, but do you know what I mean?

Do any of act, apart from masking which is an act but totally different. 

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  • I actually did a lot of acting when I was a teen. I was even Harold Hill in a production of The Music Man.

    I credit theater to how I learned a lot of things that I struggled with. Eye contact (just stare between the eyes), hugging (actually, I started hugging too much once they taught me it’s okay lol), and other little things like how far to stand from people were skills I learned from theater.

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  • I actually did a lot of acting when I was a teen. I was even Harold Hill in a production of The Music Man.

    I credit theater to how I learned a lot of things that I struggled with. Eye contact (just stare between the eyes), hugging (actually, I started hugging too much once they taught me it’s okay lol), and other little things like how far to stand from people were skills I learned from theater.

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  • in reply to profdanger

    I agree that switcing modes like that is a form of acting and that it's exhausting, giving a talk to the local Womens Insistute was one of the hardest things I've ever had to to, they're like a bunch elderly naughty school girls gossiping and passing notes instead of listening.

    But thats not the sort of acting I was meaning.

    I was always so embarassed about being on stage, I never recovered from being the bleat in the school nativity play when I was about 7 or 8. I had to sit behind a screen and bleat during the shepherds scene. I was the best bleater in the class! I also had to be one of the french hens when singing the twelve days of xmas and I held my picture of a chicken upside down, so traumatic an experience I still want the ground to open up and swallow me when I look at a stage. That was about it for acting and drama in my school years, we just didn't do it, I'm always amazed at people who've done all this stuff when they were so young. and for many it's so normal!