Today has been kind of a mess for me. In one of my acting classes, my director had us use emotional recall. He had us walk round the room and as he yelled out different ages, we had to think of things that happened during that time period. And then after about 20 minutes, we all gathered again in a circle and he told us to pull out the most emotionally potent event in our lives that we could think of. For those of you not associated with any kind of acting, emotional recall can put you in a very dark place. Like, I know people that have needed counseling after shows because they became so emotionally invested in their work. So there we were, a group of 20-something year olds SOBBING and then our director says "Okay, now apply that event to a line in your scene", which made things 10x worse. We all stayed behind because none of us really wanted to be alone at that point because some of us had slipped into that deeper phase of emotional recall.
As an actor, I try and make myself emotionally available to the character and the scene and what's happening in the show. But I've never been as invested as I was today, and I NEVER cry in front of people. We all are pretty good friends in the class, but today I know we all became so much closer as a group. Ever since that class today (2:00 this afternoon), I've honestly been a little emotionally screwed up. Luckily it didn't effect my rehearsal, but I still wasn't feeling 100%.
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