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Stanley Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emmy Award-winning actor Stanley Tucci<\/strong><\/a> has plenty to say about acting and his career in an\u00a0 interview with Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>. While the interview mainly focuses on some of his past roles, Tucci also speaks about two aspects of acting that he tries to avoid \u2014 overthinking and waiting.<\/p>\n

One approach to acting that Tucci subscribes to is not overthinking a role<\/a>. He explains, \u201cSometimes I find that if you start to research things too much, you can do yourself a disservice. In other words, you start to overthink things, and that overthinking will become evident in your performance. I hate to say it, but you fuck yourself up by thinking too much. In any art form, the important thing is that you\u2019re not thinking. When you\u2019re painting, you\u2019re not thinking. You can\u2019t think. You have to have done all your thinking before and now you\u2019re just making a connection and you\u2019re living really in the moment because that\u2019s what we do in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanley Tucci\u2019s Candid Thoughts on Acting and Downtime on Set<\/h2>\n

While Tucci is against overthinking a role, all the downtime during the production of a typical film or television series \u2014 which is far from his favorite part of the experience \u2014 might make that difficult. He says:<\/p>\n

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\u201cActing is fun<\/a>. Waiting around to act is so not fun. You feel like you\u2019re wasting your time. Obviously, there are things that are happening that need to happen to be ready for you to go and do your moment. [\u2026] But on most films, because either they\u2019re not well organized or people are overthinking them, you can end up waiting in your trailer for days sometimes, and that is really, incredibly boring.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know what that time is going to be, so you can\u2019t really commit yourself to anything, and you have to stay in this emotional and intellectual purgatory until they say, \u201cOkay, we\u2019re ready for you,\u201d and then you can go. So you\u2019re saving your energy. You can\u2019t really commit to anything except a crossword puzzle or Instagram.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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