Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
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What I found out about stage is that there is such a camaraderie between the actors.
Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.
That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
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