читать дальшеAndrew Scott in Dying City, the play by Christopher Shinn.
One of the most important things for an actor is to be able to summon tears. They can convey so much depth of feeling without the baggage of dialogue. The audience can ascribe their own sense of what they stand for – despair, happiness, anger – and cry along with the character. It’s cathartic and stands in where no words can contain the emotion. Lots of actors seldom if ever cry, though. William H. Macy once said that he hated crying but he did it in Pleasantville when his character had to go from the black and white world to color because it was the best way to show the stark transition. It was a shocking change and crying felt right to him on that one.
I’ve mentioned before that Andrew is a cryer. In many of the things I’ve seen him in he sheds tears. His characters are generally vulnerable, sensitive types so that’s perfectly reasonable. And he doesn’t milk the tears or anything. In fact, he looks like he’s fighting not to cry most of the time which is precisely what his characters should be doing. They aren’t trying to gain sympathy and that’s why the tears are so effective. We feel his pain, as Bill Clinton would say.
I always assumed that Andrew’s crying is a technique he’s planned in advance. Probably most of the time it is. The whole idea is to make the audience think they’re seeing something happen for the very first time. That’s the magic. But, I’ve read a couple of different tweeters say independently of one another that Andrew cried at a certain point where he wasn’t meant to and hadn’t before, in the last performance of Design For Living. They both thought he was simply overcome with the fact that it was the very last show. I’m dubious. But, I’m doubtful about my dubiousness, too. What a conundrum! Is it possible that Andrew is able to cry so easily because his emotions are at his fingertips and that’s why he’s the great actor that he is? Or is he such a great actor that he can call up tears at any given moment? Or is he such a great actor because he is such a sensitive person that he’s emotional enough to cry at something like the last performance of a show? Was the crying at Design For Living just a little trick to make the audience feel they were in on something particularly special? Apparently, just a bit before that an actor went offstage with a bunch of dishes or glasses and then there was a loud crash off stage. An actor then walked on and supposedly was trying not to smile over it. Do I fall for this as an accident? Or was that just one of those little things performers do during the run of a show to amuse themselves and at the same time make the audience feel special? I’m afraid I have no answers.
Maybe it would be nice if Andrew felt compelled to such high emotion that he was actually moved to tears. But, I keep thinking of something Kirk Douglas said. He said that after seeing him emote really strongly in a scene someone told him, “you really lost yourself in that scene.” He replied, “no, you were lost in that scene. I always knew exactly where I was.”
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