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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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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
There's a very well known person that is already acting religious.

Yet acting is the art of being what you are not.

I suspect it's like the saying: "all the good lies have an element of truth to them".

So all good actors must have a element of the part in themselves.

I will say this is. I have played the anadvocate before...

https://www.lawnet.gov.lk/hodgson-v-george/
In England even suchadmissions are regarded with some jealousy by the Courts (see Reg.v. Thornhill3), and I have always understood tire rule to be that anadvocate cannot-bind his client in a criminal case by the admissionat least of any material part of the case for the prosecution, and I have so applied it myself in the Assize Court.

It's not easy arguing for values that you don't agree with. Yet that's exactly what many lawyers do.
@DeWayfarer Very true.