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Acting changes the brain: it’s how actors get lost in a role
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1576" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/acting-changes-the-brain-its-how-actors-get-lost-in-a-role" target="_blank"><strong>Acting changes the brain: it’s how actors get lost in a role - aeon</strong></a></p><p></p><p>At our English boarding school in the 1990s, my friends and I would spend hours immersed in roleplaying games. Our favourite was <em>Vampire: The Masquerade</em>, and I can well remember experiencing a kind of psychological hangover after spending an afternoon in the character of a ruthless undead villain. It took a while to shake off the fantasy persona, during which time I had to make a conscious effort to keep my manners and morals in check, so as not to get myself into some realworld trouble.</p><p></p><p>If a little fantasy roleplay can lead to a morphing of one’s sense of self, then what must it be like for professional actors, and especially so-called method actors, who follow the teachings of the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski and truly embody the parts they play?</p><p></p><p>There is certainly anecdotal evidence that actors experience a blending of their real self with their assumed characters. For instance, Benedict Cumberbatch said that, while he enjoyed playing a character as complex as Sherlock Holmes, there is also ‘a kickback. I do get affected by it. There’s a sense of being impatient. My mum says I’m much curter with her when I’m filming <em>Sherlock</em>.’</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1576, member: 1"] [URL='https://aeon.co/ideas/acting-changes-the-brain-its-how-actors-get-lost-in-a-role'][B]Acting changes the brain: it’s how actors get lost in a role - aeon[/B][/URL] At our English boarding school in the 1990s, my friends and I would spend hours immersed in roleplaying games. Our favourite was [I]Vampire: The Masquerade[/I], and I can well remember experiencing a kind of psychological hangover after spending an afternoon in the character of a ruthless undead villain. It took a while to shake off the fantasy persona, during which time I had to make a conscious effort to keep my manners and morals in check, so as not to get myself into some realworld trouble. If a little fantasy roleplay can lead to a morphing of one’s sense of self, then what must it be like for professional actors, and especially so-called method actors, who follow the teachings of the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski and truly embody the parts they play? There is certainly anecdotal evidence that actors experience a blending of their real self with their assumed characters. For instance, Benedict Cumberbatch said that, while he enjoyed playing a character as complex as Sherlock Holmes, there is also ‘a kickback. I do get affected by it. There’s a sense of being impatient. My mum says I’m much curter with her when I’m filming [I]Sherlock[/I].’ [/QUOTE]
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