The Psychological Transition from Acting as “Myself” to “Himself”

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211215.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Actor; Performance; Characterization; Psychology

Abstract

From “oneself” to “character”, the transition is an ineluctable process for an actor changing from fitting in to naturally performing. Adjusting oneself from having his own lifestyle to getting into the background confined by scripts is a fundamental benchmark for evaluating a sophisticated actor. This article mainly focuses on the summary of performances by outstanding actors and actresses and summarizes that the life span of acting is determined by one’s ability of “acting as someone else” since one’s finding out the spirit of a character necessitates the capacity to find out the spiritual connection with the character. Here 4 points are emphasized from the perspective of psychology. If an actor wants to play a vivid character, one needs to balance oneself between “oneself” and “someone else”.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuxin Peng
AU  - Zhihai Ye
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/15
TI  - The Psychological Transition from Acting as “Myself” to “Himself”
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 72
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211215.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211215.013
ID  - Peng2021
ER  -