Actors are particularly susceptible to seeing the world powerfully from the point of view of their characters. It’s what their job is. You never tell an actor who’s about to do a bad thing, “You’re a bad guy.” I’m always telling my actors when they’re about to do something bad or something morally transgressive, “You’re a good guy. This is a bad moment, but you’re a good guy.” Because unless you’re a total sociopath, which very few people are, the people doing bad things are still people, and the people having noble moments are still people, and the next moment they’ll do a bad thing. I think,
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