how can you cry while acting?

Answer 1

It's not a technique, sweetheart (Im assuming youre female by your name--forgive me if youre male!). Thinking of something sad that happened in the past isn't genuine and takes away from your character. The audience can tell. The only surefire advice I can give you is to BE your character. Learn their personality. Consume yourself so much with your character that you become them. You laugh at what they laugh about. You become angry at what would anger them. And you cry about what would break their heart. This past year I was the lead role in "Fiddler on the Roof", Tevye. I fell in love with this character. So much was I enamored with who he was that it was not difficult for me to cry when my daughter, Chava, ran away with someone who was not of the Jewish faith, an act that means banishment from the Jewish community. Or when my other daughter, Hodel, left for Siberia to be with her love. I became the compassionate, loving father who only wanted what was best for my daughters. And the tears flowed freely as if my own heart were being rent from my chest. Trust me, love. BE your character and you will experience a whole new world and see a significant turn in your acting career. I wish you well and good luck.

Answer 2

Ima make this short and sweet***
From my acting coach I learnt that the key to effective acting is believability how can u make some one believe somethin if u dont your self...now you need to feel their pain u need to be them and if that person would cry in that point and time it should just come... you need make up a whole life story about this character make sure that when you speak those words u kno where they are coming from u kno why they choose those specific words...its just like when u cry u have a reason its somethin build up ... this character doesnt just start where the script starts you must kno their feelings....i hope i have helped u good luck

Answer 3

If you're in character enough, that might be enough. Like, if your character's husband was dying right before her eyes, you could just put yourself as your husband (or wife, or whatever) dying RIGHT THERE. And you love them so much. They've been a part of your life for so long, and now they're slipping away.... You just have to think of every aspect of the situation.
If that doesn't work, try opening up your throat like you're yawning. Keep your mouth closed, of course (unless you're talking). Your nostrils will flare as if you are yawning, but it also looks like you're about to cry. You know how when you yawn a lot your eyes water? Yeah, if you open up your throat enough, you'll cry.

Answer 4

In method acting you have to put yourself into a thought of mind of something that really bothers you and brings out the emotional part.
Some people use eye drops, I think if you cut up some onions and put them in a plastic bag and put your head in there, it would work:), I'm not kidding, chop some onions..
I can cry when I think of my dog or dad who pasted away, or when I think of how sweet mom is ....

Answer 5

If you have ever taken an acting class, its called Sense Memory, you think of something sad that happened to you, like a death of a family member. It could be anything!

It really helps because you have to create the character and portray what they are feeling! BE that person!

Break A Leg!!!

Answer 6

Don't think...Just cry. You have all these emotions running through you at all times. If you're on stage, are you going to take a "moment" to think of something sad so you can cry. You just do it.

Answer 7

yes, the tried and true "method" method. practice by remembering a "sad" situation that caused tears. then "place" yourself "back" into it. remember it in greatest possible detail: see the people, feel the feelings, etc. relive it, in other words, yet retain knowledge that it's just a method thereby maintaining a certain degree of detachment so as not to be "retraumatized". kind of a tricky balance, but seems to work pretty well. good luck

Answer 8

If i'm performing I continuously imagine about the actual scene. once at college we were doing the Nativity and we had to do the scene with the toddlers being killed and that i had tears in my eyes then, and they were very nearly genuine because i replaced into wondering about how terrible it would want to be. So i imagine the proper approach is to easily imagine you're the guy you're performing and experience how terrible that is for them because it enables you to stay in personality rather of purely wondering about useless domestic dogs or although.

Answer 9

Think of somthing very sad to you, or since you've cried before, make the face that you usally make when you cry. thats what i do, adnhte tears start pouring out. although, i'm a little sister, so i get plenty of practise ;)

Answer 10

you have to find a situation in your own life that makes you cry and adapt the "characters" life so that you can use your real-life experience by your character on stage...it's hard, just fake it until you get to "advanced" acting classes...