Playbill: The stage, says Kumail Nanjiani, is distinctly different from the world of film, where he's made his entire career up to this point. "On screen acting, you could get it right on the third take, and they're like, 'You are such a genius,'" Nanjiani said on a September 2 visit to Late Night With Seth Meyers. "In a play, you have to get it right the first time every single time eight times a week."
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This article is pretty funny and ironic from the acting point of view. Yet it is also eye-opening in the fact of the difference between acting for the stage versus the screen. Kumail Nanjiani states that for the stage, you only have one try to get it right, whereas on the screen, you typically have multiple takes. I think this is really interesting and definitely a challenge for actors going from screen to stage. Luckily, Kumail had his co-star to pull him up from his mistake, but it makes you put into perspective the difference between the two acting styles. This article also led me to think about the technical differences of the stage and the screen. Not only is the does the acting have to be right the first time on stage, so does the tech. It also just gets you to think about the vast difference of the technical aspects from the stage to the screen. One audience is watching it live twenty feet away, where the other audience is sitting in front of a tv.
I think this brings a new light to live entertainment. When young children are looking up to these broadway stars and they see them as the “perfection” and that they can’t make any mistake.
I loved getting the background look into the highest level of the entertainment field and giving the young children a view that it is ok to make mistakes and that it is ok to not be perfect all the time and that what really matters isn’t the mistakes you make but instead is how you pick yourself up from those mistakes. I also liked how he talked about the difference between tv work and live work and how tv may seem better or higher quality but that each scene you are seeing the best take and then the most edited version of that scene, putting it in this perspective puts a whole new view on how different the two fields really are.
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