I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
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When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.