The Great Acting Blog: “Dealing With Negative Emotions”

The Great Acting Blog: “Dealing With Negative Emotions”

A bad audition, a dodgy performance, unemployment, a needless slight from a director, an unhappy dressing room. These can affect us deeply, sending us into negative emotional states. After all, acting is an intense lifestyle, actors have to fight hard just to get an opportunity, the pressure is on, the work is important, and so emotions can run high.

Negative emotions can be powerful, we cannot always control them. But we should not pay too much attention to them, and we should definitely not make decisions when in their grip.

Elite sportspeople get very down whenever they lose, but they let it pass and then they get up on the horse again. Actors should do the same.

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