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00:00I don't really have like an elaborate process to like prepare and I just kind

00:08of drill it, just go over it line by line by line by line by line by line by line

00:12by line by line and once I get it in my mind, in terms of the lines, that's when I

00:17can kind of like put the body onto the skeleton and I figure out more things

00:20okay cool, I'm gonna say a certain word a certain time and it resonates and an

00:24idea comes into my mind that oh maybe he does this or he was like that or that

00:28person's like this etc etc so it's just yeah just drilling it over and over

00:33again and trying to figure out where the character story kind of lies and stuff

00:37like that. I thought I was ready, prepped for everything that they throw at me but the

00:46minute I sat down I could just feel it slipping, the answers didn't come out

00:52right and the way they looked at me it was like like I wasn't even there. When I

00:59get a role, how I break down the script, I kind of look at how the

01:04other characters would describe the character. I also look at the character

01:09breakdown, the character's synopsis, what they're like, kind of look at different

01:14conversations that they have, are they respected, are they not respected, people

01:18talk to them in a kind of lower tone, a more authoritative tone, that kind of

01:21thing. So I think just reading through the whole script and understanding one

01:25the story of the series, film, whatever it might be, play, how that character

01:32interacts, the words that they use, the tone and how other characters talk to

01:36them as well so kind of all that in one pot.

01:39I'm five days away from my water being cut off, I'm three hours away from losing

01:43my phone service, Bobby's got to eat man, he's looking up to me, trusting that his

01:50daddy will figure it out. My biggest challenge was playing a character that

01:55has a child that depends on him because I don't have that and it's hard to

02:00research that because if you don't have that feeling you're kind of just

02:04essentially making up on the fly. But the good thing about this was

02:10that with the monologue you kind of feel a sense of desperation and frustration

02:15that he has so that kind of plays through the scene instead of having to

02:19find it, it's already there. How I kept going in the dark moments was having a

02:24great support system around me, so a good friendship group, good family

02:28support unit, active friends that have gone through the journey as well

02:33so it made me feel like I wasn't the only person, I wasn't suffering in

02:36silence, I wasn't suffering alone and just having people that you can speak to

02:40because not a lot of people, I feel like in this industry a lot of people

02:44act as if they're doing more than what they're doing, you know, and I think less

02:50than 1% of people in this industry work so we can't all be happy but yeah just

02:54having a strong strong support or community of people that you could just

02:57vent to and just kind of you know bounce ideas off and thoughts and feelings off

03:01so being able to play as an actor is vitally important because essentially it

03:06is a kid's game in a sense in terms of being able to explore different

03:10characters and perform on stage and essentially being paid to mess around

03:15in a sense. It's a luxury but it's important to understand the reason why

03:20you got into it in the first place because you enjoyed it even when you

03:23were doing it for free. Once you get to a certain point and you have that and you

03:27just enjoy being able to perform on stage or perform on in front of on

03:31screen or in a TV series or wherever it might be it's essential because it's

03:35hard, it's not easy. This industry is tough so yeah having that child's mindset is

03:40essential I would say.

'How I kept going in the dark moments' - Stefan Asante-Boateng

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