There are so many lessons like this embedded in this sub from the last 5-6 years. Reading and watching lessons can bring you fresh ideas and concepts that will benefit you no matter where you are in this journey. It’s worth a look and even multiple looks. Most of the video lessons come from our live Zoom classes, so joining one of them will give you even more insight and the opportunity to get my live feedback and guidance. You can also ask me questions and post your own monologue videos for my feedback, but only after you finish reading all my lessons and asking questions like this!  Here is today’s conversation:

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STUDENT:  Morning u/winniehiller
Great video this has helped to crystallize for me,  something that you have been teaching us....while creating an all new question

So a tactic change is not just that, but also a "change of the person" that is delivering it.

So my new question is then this....How do you know the right amount of other person to dial in to the tactic change so as not to come off as unhinged (unless that is the over-all character)
but to add enought so that there is enough of you behind the change that it sells the tactic and serves as a clear demarcation between it and the tactic that came before it?

Or is all that moot as we shouldn't even be judging our characters anyway?

WINNIE:  First we need to distinguish between “you” (the actor) and “you” (your character). I hope you can refer to the way you make adjustments in real life as a reference and then apply that method to your character. 

You are constantly using different tactics yourself in real life, and this requires you to access the different people who reside within you. Though you never change to a completely different person, you utilize very different aparts of yourself when you flirt and when you threaten. In fact, there are people who know you well who wouldn’t recognize you when you are using seldom used parts of yourself in unique circumstances. You are still YOU.  But sometimes you need to access parts of yourself that are suppressed in your everyday dealings. It is still something that lives within you for reasons in your history. 

The important thing to remember when you are playing a given character is that you are always coming from their POV that has been put together throughout their life. There is a consistency that always draws from that perspective even though many “different people” live within them. But they never stray from that character’s experience and life view. They simply draw from all that is necessary (that lives within them) to achieve what they want. This does not give you access to anything outside of their character. But it might give you access to personality aspects that are switched, one to another, in order to attempt to achieve a given goal in a particular circumstance. 

Once again I must point out that you are many different people within a single day, As a parent, an employee, a lover, an artist, you employ very different aspects of yourself. Your character has as many unique aspects of his own personality. I simply use the image of “becoming different people” to emphasize (and give you permission) to make big changes as you switch to each new tactic—but always with the confines of your character’s history and way of thinking. Does that make sense?

TACTICS & USING DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITHIN YOUR CHARACTER - This is a video lesson from 5 years ago that a new student just ask a question about. I’d like to share it with all of you-& our conversation about it, below. Take time click below to read & watch.