Abstract When a script stipulates actions, gestural routines and mental models for a character that clash with the personal values of the actor, it creates dissonance between what the actor (as person) believes, represents or feels, and that which the character (as fictional construct) is interpreted to represent. This dissonance may negatively impact on the believability of the actor inhabiting the ‘as if’ world of the character. The article proposes a theoretical approach to navigating this potentially performance-restricting dissonance through a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on embodiment, embodied imagination and empathy. Personal restrictions, values, socialization, culture and impulse avoidances are subjectively sculpted and embodied in and through lived experiences. In articulating the proposed approach, the article places emphasis on practically guiding and enabling the actor to manage these embodied experiences, personal values and subjective restrictions in relation to material that is perceived to be challenging and uncomfortable. This article does not aim at theorizing or expanding on character development techniques, but rather to facilitate finding ways to navigate actor–character dissonance while remaining sensitive to actors and their respective processes in engaging with, and depicting, a character in a competent and believable manner. Instead of forcing actors to work through restrictions or adversely dislodging talented actors from a production due to seemingly unmanageable dissonances, this article argues for possible solutions to manage contradictory values and stances respectfully through a multi-layered process. The article will address concepts such as personal views, mental models, socialization, will, empathy, imagination, gesture and motor intentionality.

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运用具身想象力和同理心来弥合演员与角色的不协调

摘要 当剧本规定与演员个人价值观相冲突的角色的动作、手势和心理模型时，它会在演员（作为人）所相信、所代表或感觉与角色（作为虚构人物）之间产生不一致。构造）被解释为表示。这种不和谐可能会对居住在角色“仿佛”世界中的演员的可信度产生负面影响。本文提出了一种理论方法，通过利用体现、具身想象力和同理心的跨学科方法来驾驭这种潜在的性能限制失调。个人限制、价值观、社会化、文化和冲动避免被主观塑造并体现在生活经历中。在阐明提议的方法时，该文章强调实际指导和使行为者能够管理这些与被认为具有挑战性和不舒服的材料相关的具体体验、个人价值观和主观限制。本文的目的不是理论化或扩展角色发展技术，而是促进找到解决演员与角色不协调的方法，同时对演员及其各自以称职和可信的方式参与和描绘角色的过程保持敏感. 本文不是因为看似无法控制的不和谐而迫使演员克服限制或不利地将有才华的演员从作品中驱逐出去，而是提出可能的解决方案，通过多层次的过程尊重地管理矛盾的价值观和立场。