Week 13a: Compelling and Believable

A screencap from our scene. Tanisha played Estragon (a hallucinated
voice in my head), and I played Vladimir (Didi).

So for our final exams for acting, instead of having us a write a conventional sit-down, we were given a scene study. Breaking on groups of two, each pair was given 2 pages from the play “Waiting for Godot” and were allowed to present it, or stylize it in any way they chose. Tanisha and I partnered up and decided to do it as a schizophrenic addict fighting with one of the voices in her head.

After we presented, one of the things that Mark mentioned was that something about my portrayal of character was both “compelling and believable”. I think that's the most positive thing about being crazy, I've even heard.

I love how surprised people get when I can play “crazy” well. I'm going to let y'all in on a secret. It's not acting, so much as it is accepting and replaying.

I've watched enough people smoked (and smoked enough myself) to know what someone looks and acts like when they smoke. I've been around enough addicts to tell when they're itching for a hit, all I really do, is emulate what they'd do. I have enough crazy in my head, that all I had to do was let some of it show.