![]() ![]() It went further than that, actually Andy would go far out of his way to do things in character that he would never have done as himself.His dedication to making Tony a separate persona went as far as appearing on stage with him - "him" actually being a friend (usually Andy's close colleague Bob Zmuda) dressed as Clifton and imitating Andy's Clifton voice. Andy Kaufman pretended to have a difficult working relationship with his alter ego, Tony Clifton.Dame Edna Everage, who refers to Barry Humphries as her "entrepreneur" or manager. ![]() This is the least frequently seen, most subtle version, and the mechanism of this change in personality is not consistent, further making it more difficult to recognize. The third method is when the actor acknowledges the character is "them", but somehow a "different" them.In this case, the actor is never mentioned by the character and the actor almost never appears in "public". The second version is to entirely subsume the "real" actor in the role.The character may refer to the actor in the third person, or vice versa. The first way is to portray the individual as an entirely separate person while acknowledging the existence of the actor.This is usually done in one of a couple of ways. However, some actors not only allow the character this existence, they actively cultivate them as a person as real as any other person walking around. Fox Mulder lives more vividly in our collective imagination than David Duchovny Leonard Nimoy was so eclipsed by his character in Star Trek that he titled his autobiographies I Am Not Spock and (once he'd made his peace with it) I Am Spock respectively. It can be said that some roles take on a life of their own, separate from the actor that plays them. ![]()
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