Angelshare1
Well-known member
I posted this in the acting section but any directors who can help me out would be appreciated too:
So we are doing the table read and we get to a scene that requires my lead to kiss a woman. We were not acting it out at all, just reading. He stumbles over that part and asks if we are doing like a stand in or what.
Okay a couple of problems. It was pretty obvious to everyone that my lead had not yet read the whole script. I can work with that. The big problem though is that he doesn't want to do a kiss scene. Understand, this isn't nudity, or love making or even first base. Just kissing at the end of a date. Not full blown make out session. A nice goodbye kiss. He also stumbled over curse words. Now understand, it's not like my script is wall to wall "edgy" with lots of swear words and N-words. It has 2 f words and 2 Ahole words.
My actor is a born again Christian and he's pretty uncomfortable doing these scenes even though they are pretty tame by most standards. I can comprosmise on the swearing, and I can get by the fact that he hasn't read the whole script but I need him to kiss those women. (There are two kiss scenes.) He has a girlfriend and that's what he's worried about.
I'm venting a little bit here but I'm looking for solid advice on how to get my actor comfortable with kissing a stranger. Any advise is appreciated.
So we are doing the table read and we get to a scene that requires my lead to kiss a woman. We were not acting it out at all, just reading. He stumbles over that part and asks if we are doing like a stand in or what.
Okay a couple of problems. It was pretty obvious to everyone that my lead had not yet read the whole script. I can work with that. The big problem though is that he doesn't want to do a kiss scene. Understand, this isn't nudity, or love making or even first base. Just kissing at the end of a date. Not full blown make out session. A nice goodbye kiss. He also stumbled over curse words. Now understand, it's not like my script is wall to wall "edgy" with lots of swear words and N-words. It has 2 f words and 2 Ahole words.
My actor is a born again Christian and he's pretty uncomfortable doing these scenes even though they are pretty tame by most standards. I can comprosmise on the swearing, and I can get by the fact that he hasn't read the whole script but I need him to kiss those women. (There are two kiss scenes.) He has a girlfriend and that's what he's worried about.
I'm venting a little bit here but I'm looking for solid advice on how to get my actor comfortable with kissing a stranger. Any advise is appreciated.
