“DO LESS”
🚨 Most actors hear “do less” and accidentally erase the humanity.
🔥 “Do less” doesn’t mean “do nothing.” Humans shift weight, fidget, breathe. Neutral stillness isn’t natural, it’s a shutdown.
🧩 That note is shorthand. They want the product. You have to supply the process. Translate it into something you can actually do.
✋ Sometimes it means fewer gestures. Cut it from thirty to five and live inside them.
⏳ Sometimes it means longer duration. Hold the shape. Let the idea land. Stay there before you move.
🐢 Sometimes it means slow your tempo. Your body may be moving faster than the music or the character’s thoughts.
📏 Sometimes it means smaller scale. Bring the movement closer. More intimate, more natural.
🔍 And sometimes it means stillness, but alive stillness. Stillness inside a shape, not arms-down, blank-face nothingness.
💡 The real question is never “do less.” It’s “less what?”
