up something about sadness and all that, oh God, I’m not really crying, everyone knows I’m not crying—he was saying don’t do that. Until you understand the scope of it. The greatest advice I’ve ever gotten. Just fake it. And if you are a good enough actor, you’ll fill it in later. More than anything that happened to me on Angels, that conversation was life-changing. It changes my approach to actors today. I want to release them from the pressure of reality. American actors have been fed this line that if you’re not feeling it, it’s not good. I don’t agree.
