How do I Act so Well

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I’m portraying in the film or play. You’re confused. A perfectly simple case and point, Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson comes from New Zealand, says to me, roscoe, I want you to be Gandalf the wizard, and I said to him, you are aware that I am not really a wizard! And he says yes, well I’m aware of that. What I want you to do is to use your acting skills to portray the wizard, for the duration of the film. So I said ok, and then I said to myself…mmm…how do I do that? And this is what I did. I imagined what it would be like to be a wizard, and then I pretended and acted in that way on the day. And how did I know what to say? The words were written down for me in a script. How did I know where to stand? People told me. If we were to draw a graph of my process of my method, it would be something like this, Roscoe Roscoe Roscoe, action “WIZZARD, YOU SHALL NOT PASS” cut, Roscoe Roscoe… now you will be pretending to be my loyal subjects in this play, and how do you know what to say, well there is a script. And you will know the words as you will not have the script on the night, everyone hear that, there will be no scripts on the night. You learn the words. You say them as if you said then for the first time. See, if you had your scripts you would break the illusion and the whole thing is an illusion, you see. You are not really my loyal subjects. You are pretending…and that is acting. This is a new play, my 21st, and you would be the part of my loyal subject, and your in love for me, and the whole centrepiece of the play is the emotional confrontation where you address those unspoken feelings towards me, which you have been bottling up.