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Hi /adv/
So I've got a weird, specific problem here, and I'm looking for some advice. Or just reassuring words. I don't know.
I'm an actor. I've been acting on stage and in film for many years. Every now and then a project comes along that requires me to have a romantic interest. (i.e. wife, girlfriend, etc...) I've often struggled with these.
I portray love very realistically. I wear my heart on my sleeve, and because of this I often end up catching feelings for my co-star. I understand that as an actor I should be able to turn these feelings on and off, but it's hard for me to fake these feelings.
It really tears me apart sometimes, because sometimes I have to portray a character that's madly in love. Things can get very intimate between my co-stars and I, but once we get off set/stage it's like we're just friends/acquaintances.
I guess what I'm looking for is a way to overcome this? Cause it's not fun "falling in love" with someone over and over again if it's fake.. If you're an actor how do you deal with this? If not I'll take any advice, or words of wisdom.
Thanks all.
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Don't you have a girlfriend?
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>>18714753
Nope, single as fuck my friend. I've had plenty in the past however.
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>>18714755
No wonder you're having this problem.
What do you think sets apart a romantic POV of a character and real life romance?
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>>18714740
I don't think I believe in this OP, because one of the foundations of the American school of acting (call it Method or Stella Adler or any other variant) is sense memory, the technique (to oversimplify) of remembering when you felt an emotion and recreating it while keeping it totally under your control - feeling and pretending-to-feel at the same time.
OP has to have been trained in this, and while it is not unheard of for actors to get caught up in the feelings they're recreating (including romantic ones) no trained actor will do that every single time.
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1. You're not falling for your co-star, you're falling for the characters they portray.
2. It's ok to have crushes, just kind of let it run its course until you're back to normal.
You're probably feeling stupid for falling for someone that doesn't exist but if that's how your brain works you shouldn't fight it, it sounds perfectly natural.
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