ABSTRACT
One of the biggest challenges for young actors when approaching scene work is in knowing how to emotionally enter a scene. They either “pretend” to be in an emotional state or they enter neutral. So, how does one go from pretending to being?. The goal when fantasizing is to allow the fantasy to take the actors where it wants to go, not to try and control the fantasy. It is not about the end product necessarily but about the journey and about embracing where the actors go in their imagination. In finding the Point of View, or internal life, of a character in Meisner’s work, the actors must ask themselves how they are like and different from the character, and answer the following questions from the script: what you say about yourself, what you say about others, and what others say about you.
