When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
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Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.
Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.
The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.
I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.
Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.