What if I? This is another step that separates the good actors from the greats at that we teach at our acting classes for kids. This step creates an investment that costs the actor something. We as humans can always tell when someone is personally involved. Putting yourself in the position of the character or into that situation in your mind is a very effective tool. So is this is like the time that I … Both of these approaches take it off the page and give it mass, weight and dimension. The saying goes that if you can kill a fly you can play Othello. In a way I am asking the actor to take a situation that someone else has imagined and breath life into it, their own life, as if it was happening to them for real right here and now. Who are they talking I to? In the scene it is their overbearing mother. Ok, who is like that in your life? Your football coach who makes you feel useless? Great, then that is who you are talking to in your imagination.
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