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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> What are the qualities and talent that make an actor/actress good?Question: What are the qualities and talent that make an actor/actress good!? In other words, what separates the good actors/actresses and the bad actors/actresses!? What are the qualities that make an actor/actress good!? You hear of people nowadays that many of the 20-something year old young actors are not actors!. Why!? What makes a good actor good and a bad actor bad!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A lot goes into acting!. All good actors/actresses get to the point where they aren't acting anymore!. They're living out their roles!. Take Heath Ledger for example!. Best actor I've ever seen from The Dark Knight, but ended up accidentally killing himself because of his role (If you've seen the movie, you'd understand)!. Actors and actresses don't just sympathize with the feelings of the character they play!. They empathize!. They get into it and become the role!. I've read that a lot of good actors have a part of the character they play stick with them because it felt so real to them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I am an actress and apparently a good one, I don't know I never watch myself!. I believe a great actor has excellent character analysation skills and a great actor can make themselves vulnerable and expose their soul when portraying a character!. Being vulnerable in real life is hard but to do it in front of 20 people as someone else and create an energy that leaves the director physically shaking and your fellow actor scared is a good start!. Young actors today do not go very far outside of themselves when choosing a character!. They have little life experience so they play characters that embodie who they are as opposed to characters that they must embodie!. I always choose characters who are the polar opposite of me so then I know I am pushing myself way outside the square and allowing myself to be someone I am not!. Then I give the character facets make her three dimensional just like we all are!. Young actors don't do that because you need life experience, or must be incredibly intelligent and they do not possess these qualities!. But I must say Anne Hathaway chooses gritty roles and Keira Knightley does too!. Watch their movies and you will understand!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's not the roles they play, but how believably they play them!. When you watch them act, do you feel like you're looking at Brad Pitt or do you feel like you're looking at Joe Black!?Www@QuestionHome@Com the roles they playWww@QuestionHome@Com |