Nice People + Nice Choices = Boring Scenes
It can be a real hurdle for nice people to act mean, even when playing. Pleasant people spend 95% of their life being pleasant, fact. But when you're working on stage, you can't limit yourself to what you, the actor, is comfortable with in everyday life. On stage with partners you trust you're free to use everything at your disposal, even those meanie muscles you've worked so hard at atrophying.
Be conscious of this, because you can forget that you have it in you.
Or you can develop a fear of using it.
Either way, you're hamstringing yourself.
But off stage? Please don't be an asshole.
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