If you were an actor…

Which do you think would take more suspension of belief:

being an atheist in rl playing a character who’s very religious, or a religious person in rl playing a character who’s an atheist ?

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bookerdana · M

I think its equal. The Man who wrote,A man for All Seasons,Robert Bolt,was agnostic yet wrote with a clear admiration for Thomas Moore,if not his beliefs...conversely(sort of) in Graham Greenes,The Power and the Glory,the main protagonist The Whiskey Priest is beset with doubt and conflict,and in his travels hears a Mother reading a story of a Saint that is not credible,its risible..yet the priest continues on,eventually being executed,but feeling a FAILURE.

Actors are ,hopefully trained to play a wide range of characters,with no intersection of their personal views..I winder what Anthony Hopkins felt playing Hitler🤔