The Great Acting Blog: “It Seemed So To Him”
Some people only hear what they want to hear. Some people only see what they want to see. We tend to respond to a work via the prism of our own value system: a scene could be hilariously funny for one person, but utterly obscene to another. Your work then, will connect most strongly and most positively with those who have a similar value system to your own.
When ever we get a negative response or even a hostile one, we must put it in it’s proper place and not allow it to derail us. And be able to do that is a question of knowing what you’re doing. Only actors who don’t know what they’re doing get crushed or humiliated by criticism, and they can’t tell if the criticism is worth listening to or not. Actors who do know what they’re doing however, may react to a hostile response stoically, by saying to themselves; “it seemed so to him”.
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