Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
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I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.
As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's what I love about this job: It's sort of a puzzle each time, and figuring that out is sort the key, whether I'm playing a cop or a killer.
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.