How does acting take skill?

>>86412232
Why don't you go out to community theater auditions and learn for yourself?

You've clearly never acted before.

it takes skill to convince someone of your sincerity and be entertaining

by your logic there's no such thing as a bad actor

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>>86412232
It's one of those things where you can't really learn or try doing it, you just need to be naturally good at it. So on one hand it's no skill to the people who are naturals, but on the other hand we've all seen terrible acting and we know it exists

>>86412232
Believably pretending to be someone else is pretty hard. There has to be basically zero "ACTING" visible while you act in order to be considered as a good performance.

>>86412232
They're respected because the really good ones are sociopaths who have decided to use their plausibility to get awards and earn a comfortable living instead of being Chaotic Evil.

It's clearly not learning anything highly abstract, like with mathematics or physics. It's more like practising to make perfect.

Accent, tone, body language, range...

There is of course a degree of inherent ability involved. A great actor should be able to play roles that are completely unlike their usual self. Unlike, say, someone who is practically just being themself all the time in a part (not really acting, however entertaining).

>>86412232
You just need to be a convincing liar and that is all. For those award winning performances you need some serious skill,but to be an supporting actor in a tv show or a movie,being a good liar and having some luck is all you need. It's okay if an actor gets respect for things he does with his fame (charities) but respecting someone because he plays roles as a hard man or a blue collar is a joke.

>>86414984
>but respecting someone because he plays roles as a hard man or a blue collar is a joke.
That's stupid, do you think only highly eccentric loud insane characters deserve "praise"? Because shouting and playing a crazy guy is easy, what's hard is being subtle.
Adam Driver's performance of a bus driver in Paterson deserves far more praise than any "I'M SCREAMING" Dicaprio role for example.

As a guy who's slowly gotten into acting over the past few years, taken classes, been in regional commercials, small films and television-it's harder than it looks. You think acting is easy because even the worst actors on television are far beyond what the "average" person can do. There's certainly some degree of natural talent, but just, for example, limiting your movements-staying what seems as still as stone while retaining emotional connectivity, reading lines with strong objectives and obstacles, all while hitting your marks, eye lines, ignoring crew, in addition to straight up managing the small business that you are as an individual with expensive classes, marketing materials, various forms of self promotion, maintaining relationships and auditioning-it's just not a fucking cake walk.

You don't really know what acting actually is, because it's meant to pass beneath your notice if you think it's easy.

>>86412232
>having charisma and holding people's attention requires no skill
Okay.

Having a distinct balance of self awareness (craft, remembering lines and blocking, controlling breathing, tone, etc) and a lack of self awareness (openness, vulnerability, baring who you are and living in the moment) is a very hard thing to do anon.

>>86413240
This. Only instead of being "naturally good" you're "naturally attractive" enough to act. Ugly/normal people can't act unless they have a unique enough face. All "bad" actors just don't have the face to act or they are fat.

>>86415242
I meant more in the line of people respecting actors because they are seen as actually being manly and hard when in real life they play pretend for living. Like how SOA actors are seen like badasses or like Tim Allen is "average joe". When in reality they all live in mansions and vast majority of them never had a tough job ever.

>>86412232
Pretty much anyone can "act" spontaneously, when you want to tell a story or a joke or something. But somehow it's completely different when you have to do it on command, when the director says "action," with a camera and lights pointed at your face and a whole crew staring at you. And then you have to say the same line 30-40 times in a row, like you mean it, to get multiple takes from multiple angles.

That's really the hard part, to turn things like humor or charisma, believable sadness or anger, etc, into something you can turn on and off on command, and repeat with mechanical precision. The real enemy is self-consciousness. Without training or experience, the weird high-pressure environment of a film set, and a camera capturing every move, will make you forget how to string a sentence together or do simple tasks you do every day.