Crying or producing other emotions on demand?i'm an actor ,do other actor's think of a painful memory or

Question

something to make you mad,to make you cry on demand,or start getting furious in a scene?that's what i do?Or what techniques do you use to trigger emotions as you need them for different scenes?
thanks!

Answer 1

It's better to immerse yourself into the character you are presently portraying to evoke those feelings. Try to really feel what that person is feeling that brought him to the point of tears or rage. Every great actor has always used that method.

Some great scenes of actors portraying emotion:

Jeff Daniels in "Two Days in the Valley" when he is wrapping his son's birthday present. (brilliant)
Peter Krause in HBO's "Six Feet Under" when he buries his wife Lisa. (Amazing)
James Dean in "East of Eden" when he tries to give his father the money he earned growing beans. (Unforgettable)
Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" when he sees the body of his son Sonny for the first time after he was killed. ( A Masterpiece)
Greg Kinnar in the movie "As Good as it Gets" when he does the monologue to Jack Nicholson. He got robbed of the Academy Award for that one!

Studying the greatest emotional scenes in movies should give you a lot of information on how the great actors made these scenes believable.

Answer 2

yes they do, but that is not necessary. if you do what an actor is supposed to do when he is acting, you won't need your personal agonies to make you produce the emotions. In brief, I teach that by reacting to the stimuli of the scene the way the character would react, you will automatically have the right response. If you don't it is because you are getting between the character and the response, and that is a no no. Affective memory, as Stanislavski called it is not only unpleasant, it is unnecessary. If you stop acting long enought to react to your emotional memories, it could be noticed by those watching the performance that you broke character.

Answer 3

Take Theater Doc's advice.