What Is the Job of an Actor?
Honestly, I couldn’t respect acting as a profession. I thought actors were merely entertainers who distract people from thinking about important problems, and unfortunately, most commercial entertainment is still garbage.
But when I heard Meryl Streep says an actor’s only job is “to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like”, it made me think that commercial entertainment isn’t all that bad.
In fact, I can think of some movies that have done an amazing job of making me feel what it is like to be another person:
- Wonder
- Perfect Days
- Milk
- A Girl Named Ann
- The Aviator
- Gravity’s Clowns
- Good Will Hunting
- Egoist
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Intouchables