Within your own Character

From the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka…

You bring certain facets of your personality to every role you play. Acting in the end is not becoming someone else but revealing, augmenting or hiding certain aspects of your own character.

Your character leaks out of every performance. This is not to say that is necessarily recognizable as you, many times your closest friends and family will compliment your work by suggesting that you were in fact transformed.

This transformation occurs when your understanding of the script asks that you behave in certain ways, these ways do not conform to the personality traits or characteristics that your loved ones recognize in you.

The secret to the appearance of transformation is the transformation of your behaviour.

For this reason, the actor must be prepared to do anything required by the scene to adapt their behaviour to the requirements of the moment.

You do not need to have killed someone to have experienced the desire to destroy something and it is within your capacity to damage, spoil, batter and annihilate at will.

Of course, the more richly you have lived, the more experience you have, the more you can say yes, I have performed such actions myself.

But if you do not have such experiences? That is where practicing your actions in classes or rehearsal or even at home will come into play.

Every act of character is potentially within your own character . You must work to explore how to act upon it at your will.