It’s Called Acting, Not Being

November 15, 2009 by  

There are schools of acting that say when one talks about their character, they need to refer to the character in first person. As in, “I have a drug problem” or “I want her to love me”.

Gabourey Sidibe, in the title role of Precious, smartly disagrees. “It so funny, some people tell me, oh when I did this role, my first role, I got so into it, that the lines blurred between you. And I was, that’s weird can’t you just act, do you really have to live it?”

SIDENOTE: I heard this interview on my local public radio station WNYC while I was in the car. Remembering Gary Vaynerchuck’s video on “old world technology” (see below), I used the voice recorder app on my iPhone and made a note to blog about the above interview.

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