Actually, I think for a lot of people acting like someone they're not comes very naturally.
Especially in the world of 3 minute takes in movies...I don't see a whole lot of skill involved.
True, some can cry better than others but I just don't see that as noble.
I like to be entertained by actors, but I can't say I respect them. Unless I know of something they've done off-screen that's worthwhile.
“True, some can cry better than others but I just don’t see that as noble.
I like to be entertained by actors, but I can’t say I respect them.”
To clarify: I never said acting is “noble.”
I said it was a craft and that I respect excellence in a craft, regardless of the craft. I also said that I can admire the craft without necessarily admiring other aspects of a particular individual’s life. But I could say that about any profession.
Actors, IMO, are like anybody else. Sure, there are actors who are “naturals,” just as there are “naturals” who are baseball players, cabinet-makers, chefs, entrepreneurs or any other craft or profession; but you don’t get very far just on being a “natural.”
To evaluate an actor, you need to look at his or her entire career. I have seen brilliant flash in the pan performances by people who never quite panned out over time. We don’t know what kind of a performer Heath Ledger would have turned out to be, since he died so young. For such a young man, though, he had accumulated quite a remarkable body of work.