Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
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Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
You stick to the script, the script is Bible.
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
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!
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.
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
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.
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.