When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.
An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.
There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
To have a body is to suffer.