Okay, what is the secret to producing tears when an actors character cries?
Answer Hi D, This is a more complicated issue than it may seem. There are no “tricks” or “secrets” involved in crying in character. It comes from understanding just what is required on stage or film, what the character is feeling, how to truly inhabit a character and a lot of hard work and training. It’s not a trick and it’s not a secret. It’s a matter of living the emotion and letting the tears come. When you see a play or film and the character cries, you assume that the script says “the character cries”, or that the director says “cry now” and then the actor does. That’s not what happens. Most actors can’t just instantly cry at the drop of a stage direction. But actors are, by definition, people whose emotions are usually very close to the surface naturally, and they learn, in their training, how to access those emotions and bring them into play in the service of the script. They also learn how to “live truthfully in imaginary circumstances” – that is, how to develop a character tha
