Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Thank you, dude. Thanks, man. We rarely get to talk with folks of your talent and doing what you do on this show. I think listeners don't live in your world. This is probably the first time that someone would get to hear, what is it like to act in a green-screened, white-taped laptop? How do you invoke the level of imagination that you need to? Do you have any tactics? I never studied acting in an academic setting. I don't have names for all the things that I probably do. But when you're in a green screen setting and you don't have any reality to play against, it's just like playing pretend. I have a four-year-old and a six-year-old, they're somewhere else half the day just playing pretend, just imagining what's going on. I remember doing that when I was their age. Now I still do that. I do it on command at 5:00 AM when I have to. The challenge of acting for me is not making things up or playing pretend. It's actually having to do that while straddling a hornet's nest of logistical nightmares all day long, because a movie set is just a mess. Even the most well-run sets—and this was a well-run set—by nature, there are a million things all going on all at once. It's noisy, it's cluttered. There's someone close to you. The hard part is kind of keeping your focus in your concentration and maintaining that more childlike spirit of imagination while having to contend with all this morass of logistical crap. That's the hard part.…

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