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Yourcinemafilms.com | Critically-acclaimed actor and award winning producer Hester Ruoff (Boiling Point) shares how important it is to realise your identity isn't in being an actor.   ’Welcome to Your Cinema’   Follow us on socials:   Tiktok: @yourcinemafilms   Instagram: @yourcinemafilms   Twitter: @yourcinemafilms

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00:00I like to get very familiar with lines so that when I'm acting it or when I'm

00:10doing it on set or on stage or wherever if I know them so well or I know the

00:14story and the character and the situation so well either if you know

00:18either if someone drops something I can pick it up and it doesn't throw me or if

00:22nothing's going to really throw me because I have kind of really immersed

00:27myself in it it's not about the stupid washing up Jack and yeah I'm doing it

00:35again but whatever it's not about that it's about the fact that I'm always

00:39waiting waiting for you to show me something real okay so breaking down a

00:46script I will write how I literally within that within the lines that I've

00:52got I will also write how this makes me feel or I think I mentioned earlier but

00:59like what am I actually saying when I'm saying this line or what is the

01:04character what's the other person saying at this point so I will monologue

01:08obviously is a bit different but I do like to be out if I'm doing a monologue

01:12and it's not just like a soliloquy or whatever I'm focusing at someone so I've

01:17got something to play off but otherwise acting is really about reacting and I

01:25think the best actors the person the people who are listening really really

01:30really listening and then they're just gonna be fully in the moment because

01:34you're not that's why if you know your lines so well and I'm I'm just waiting

01:38for what you're gonna say to me I'm not waiting for my cue my next line I know

01:44what that is so what are you telling me it was your suggestion and then suddenly

01:49in true narcissistic fashion it was something that I wanted and I've pushed

01:53you for and I forced you into I never wanted to come to your dingy little

01:56flapjack never and I definitely never asked to become your maid and your

02:01housekeeper and your a counselor and your emotional release after a long day

02:04I never I did there are a lot of dark moments I think in this industry I have

02:15a myriad of stories I could tell you about rejection and being not seen

02:20looked over getting to the lap down to the last two a million times being

02:26penciled losing the job getting the job and then the point zero zero zero one

02:34percent for whatever chance of you losing the job actually happens and you

02:39know they give it to a stunt person because you get shot in it and that

02:43might be bad you know just mad stuff that happens so you are not your career

02:49you are Hester or whoever you are you're not defined by your career and and

02:59you're not defined by a job or whether you get a job we don't get a job and you

03:05have to your identity is not in being an actor or in being part of this industry

03:12you have an amazing identity and I think the moment you realize that and you

03:18grasp that and you stop striving and you can and you know that a rejection

03:24is not about you everything changes everything's gonna change because you're

03:29holding it lightly and and you have purpose in your life whether you are on

03:37stage or on set or somewhere else your purpose you are you are already whole

03:44and being an actor or being in this industry doesn't change that

'Your identity is not in being an actor' - Hester Ruoff

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