Your role as an actor is to be able to self-regulate and co-regulate

Actors, this is how to stay grounded and creative

Your role as an actor is to be able to self-regulate and co-regulate.

Anywhere you’re going, your primary focus is, “Where is my self-regulation? My orientation through the senses?”

How do I get to the here and now? I get to the here and now through my senses and my felt experience.

And when that is grounded in a solid, integrated way, then I can start to risk. Then I can start to work with more chaos, more creativity.

The importance of working with scene partners who you can trust means you get used to that in your nervous system.

So it doesn’t matter if you walk onto a film set and you have someone, usually the other person, if they’re acting the maggot, it’s because they’re dysregulated.

But if your nervous system is regulated, it will regulate their nervous system.

Because you have to be very careful. If someone is emotionally drowning, you can throw them the ring, but don’t dive in after them and try to pull them out of the water.
That is just not the way to do it, okay?

And it doesn’t mean you’re being cold, but it does mean there’s things you can do like distraction or moving towards something that’s light and frothy and not going into the “What’s Wrong Attention” to kind of regulate someone’s nervous system.

So the most important nervous system that needs to be regulated is yours first and foremost.

If that is grounded and the other person is ungrounded, you being grounded, you being regulated, you can then kind of see the other person for where they are, and you can only receive what they give you.

But you can always make it work.

It doesn’t matter if they’re blocking you now you’re responding in character how that feels.
Because then you’re in a relationship with what you have in front of you.

You stay within your artistry, and if it’s there and grounded and in the belief of the story, the other person will feel more relaxed and you will actually help them.

Whoever they are, it doesn’t matter how well known they are.

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