this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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Maybe, just maybe the actor is more invested in their particular character than the writer. Or maybe the line suits the actor better.
It's disrespectful for the writers to expect actors to play their characters without putting anything of themselves into the act.
It should absolutely be a collaboration, and not one side dictating to the other, with no feedback allowed.
But I'm not going to downvote a contribution to the conversation just because I disagree.
Like David Chase once said to Tony Sirico when Sirico said "my character wouldn't say that"
"Your character?? This is MY character mother fucker, I wrote him"
Everyone needs to stick to their job and not fuck with the jobs of others. Collaboration is ok, but not on most shows, as most scripts are written just the way they're meant to be said
But it's not there character any longer, they gave them away. The writer isn't going to be able to, much less should they dictate every little detail about a performance. Those details are so important to a charter, you can't say a charter is solely the writers creation.