As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.
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It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.
You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.
As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.
Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.
Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.