ABSTRACT
This chapter portrays a character so skillfully that the audience believes that actors are going through all the emotions of the character to the point where it is convinced of the sincerity of what it is witnessing. The audience, however, always knows that actors are an actor and that actors know it is out there watching actor, and that is the only truth about acting. The screen audience is allowed to see the whole emotional thing, because it secretly knows that it is being shown only the really effective take, where the tears roll down in the perfect way. The actors have noticed how the audience does not always laugh when they are having a wonderful time corpsing. To sum up what acting is, they offer the following: All acting is cheating. They use technique to recreate a character that is believable and real, night after night in the theatre and take after take in a film.
