Transcript Of Video:

“I think one of the most crucial things any actor can do…

It’s probably one of the most important things an actor can do…

Is really come to terms…

And endow their own humanity…

And what I mean by that is…

Giving themselves a break to understand that they are not perfect…

And they don’t have to be perfect…

That they are allowed to not have it together all the time…

That they are allowed to be messy sometimes…

That they are allowed to not look like they are on the cover of Vogue…

Or GQ…

That is OK for them to have uncomfortable feelings sometimes…

That it’s OK for them to fumble…

Or fall down…

Or even fail sometimes…

I think we get so brainwashed by…

Especially social media…

That we are supposed to be a certain way…

We are supposed to look a certain way…

We are supposed to be so perfect…

We are supposed to be literally Face Tuned…

And Life Tuned…

To God know what…

That it actually affects us as artists…

Because it basically says that:

‘We need to live in our artificiality to do the work that we are supposed to be doing.’…

And the truth of the matter is…

The real work is going to be coming from our authenticity…

And our authenticity is that…

We are perfectly imperfect…

And we are imperfectly perfect…

By being who we are…

And I think that when we do that as actors…

We really start to give ourselves permission…

To really be…

And own…

Who we are…

And there is a sense of Self that we bring to the work…

That actually brings our work alive more than we could have ever imagined…

This is why I always encourage everyone I am working with…

To just go to a coffee shop…

Go to a grocery store…

Go to a restaurant…

And just look at people…

Look at their interactions…

Look at the way they relate to other people…

Look at the way they relate to themselves when they are by themselves…

Nobody has it ‘together’…

And nobody is ‘perfect’…

We all have ‘quirks’…

But that makes us beautiful…

That is what makes us human…

That is what makes us interesting to watch…

That is what makes stories interesting…

It’s that…

We are all observing king of this dynamic…

That brings us all together…

In our imperfections…

And brings us together…

By knowing, like…

‘Oh! Man! You don’t have it together?…

I don’t have it together…

Your story is interesting…

How do you try to get it together?…

Because this is my story…

And this is how I try to get it together.”.