There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.
I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.
Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.
With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.