Andrei Malaev-Babel explains the words by Demidov by saying
You can either BE a character, and be in the heat of the moment, or intellectually KNOW who the character is, what the character does or wants – one or the other. I can either be inside a story or be outside of it and “tell a story.” A myth that one can intellectually know everything about their character; then forget it and still be in the heat of the moment – is wishful thinking at best. Us human beings, when in the moment, we have no idea what we want or do. Moreover, we don’t even know who we are. We just are!
So how does the actor create ?
Regular analysis is asking for objectivity. Emotional analysis is subjective. It is interested in your character’s emotional view on the world, on other characters, etc. It does not deal with dry facts, as seen through a sober analytical lens. Intellectual account of circumstances does not help an actor. To BECOME a character, you want to find their EYE, that is to see everything around you through the lens of your character’s emotional point of view.
So we create by first and foremost, NOT by dividing a play and a role into elements or bits (active, physical, psychological, gestural or any other). An actor creates by approaching both the character and the play as an indivisible whole FROM THE VERY START of their process. When they read a play, they absorb their characters from it intuitively (with their past, present and future). They connect with their characters’ souls. They INWARDLY try their characters on, INWARDLY adopt themselves to fit their characters and they immerse themselves into character’s circumstances. Thus, they BECOME a different person. That is what every great actor has been doing, by their own accounts. None of them divided their roles into bits and objectives, discovered and rehearsed actions, physical actions, etc.. All that is Stanislavsky’ “clever” invention, not a part of any great.
And then you hear colossal actors like him – May he Rest In Peace— say the exact same thing, and you know it’s true.
The other things that I would love you to notice is the eyes.
Look at the journalists eyes they have a protective smart membrane, a filter, now look at Donald’s eyes you can see straight into his soul, these eyes have managed through experience to lose that membrane that clouds the eyes.you can see excitement, curiosity, emotions.
