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Patrick Stewart is a true professional (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it. Is 90 pages supposed to be a lot of text for a professional actor?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

90 pages of backstory? Entirely aside from the actual script containing the dialogue he has to read?

I don't know whether that's a lot—not having conversed with any professional actors—but I strongly suspect the answer is yes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is the internet. Simply proclaim you are an actor and confidently answer yes!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hello, I am Paul Newman, the famous actor.

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90 pages of backstop is significant, yes. When I got the role of Theodore in Alvin and the Chipmunks, I was bitterly disappointed by the lack of depth of the character. Almost no backstory was given to me.

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On the other hand, my rendition of Dig'em the frog for Smacks was greatly improved by the 400 hundred pages lore of the character. I became the frog.

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