You made an innocent actor mistake. You read the script and said, “I relate to him. I’ve been through a lot of the same things.” The problem with this is you are misled into thinking it’s all you need. I know you don’t really think “that’s enough,” but somehow the idea “I relate to this guy” cuts off much of our actor work. If the character were a militant lesbian ex-nun, you would know you have nothing in common with her and you would have done massive amounts of work in order to play the part. You are in dangerous territory, because you do actually have a sense of what your character has
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