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   tyliz19posted 11 years ago

   What criteria does a person have to meet for you personally to consider them a decent actor/actress?

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   duffsmomposted 11 years ago

   When an actor or actress has a good dramatic part and I can forget who they are as people - that sells it for me.  I don't want to think about the actor being Tom Cruise or Meryl Streep, or whomever,  - I want to get lost in their performance and feel like I am seeing the character come to life.

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   Lisa HWposted 11 years ago

   What I notice in actors/actresses is when there's some little thing(s) they do that makes me think, "This person really knows how a person saying/doing that particular thing would be (or what s/he's do).  There are subtle things (facial expressions, subtle body language) people do in real life, and only someone who is familiar with those things (or someone so in tune with some situations/feelings that he'd be able to imagine himself in a situation and use subtle facial expressions/body language as if it was real).
   
   Sometimes the best acting can show up in the least dramatic parts of a performance.  Sometimes, too, the more dramatic a part of a performance is, it is the best actors/actresses who know how not to "do the standard thing" associated with emotions and who, instead, do the thing only someone very tuned into what people do in real life would know to do.
   
   I'd compare it to the way comedians often strike a chord with the audience by saying something the audience hasn't actually thought on their own, but once  it's said by the comedian it strikes a chord.  Some comedians strike a chord when they say what we were also thinking but may not have said.  Others can strike a chord when they say what we didn't realize we were thinking until they said it and made us realize it.
   
   I think it's the same with those subtle things the best actors/actresses know how to do.  Although I certainly see a lot of good acting among the Academy Award winners; some of the best acting I've seen has sometimes actually been in something like commercials or something like bit parts in some fairly "unlofty" television shows.

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   DanciaKSposted 10 years ago

   They must make me feel the emotions the character is feeling, if they make a mistake, cover it up fast and unnoticed, clear speech

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   Craeftposted 10 years ago

   It shouldn't be difficult for me suspend my disbelief. If i have to struggle with that and am constantly interrupted by over-emphasis when it doesn't fit the character, I'm out.
   Also, they should be versatile. For example, I thought Jim Carrey was a HORRIBLE actor until I saw him in Truman Show where he played a completely different character from his norm. I can't support any "one-trick pony" actor.
   They should be willing and capable to play a lead role in one show and then a supporting role in another.

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