Free tips · Stage craft · Tip 14 of 19
Stillness
The best actors can stand completely still and still move you.
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The fix
Fidgeting leaks nerves. Stillness reads as control, but the feeling must still be in you.
Drill · under two minutes
Feet planted, hands relaxed at your sides. Say your key line with full feeling and no movement. Then add one deliberate gesture on the most important word.
- Stillness
- Deliberately not moving while speaking, so any gesture you do make carries meaning.
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