Acting Journal XII: 3/12/15
Don gave Kendall and I a rather severe "edit" of our scene. Basically it cuts out the entire ending, after Kendall's character, Celia, catches mine lying. It also cuts out quite a bit of the middle where my guy is making excuses. I feel that this changes the tone of the whole scene, as it naturally makes Kendall as Celia more confident, and in control by the end, and leaves with my character James on the receiving end of some "just desserts". It also seems to make my guy feel less "slimey". In this edit, he seems to have shifted from the guy cheating on his wife with mistress #27, and on this one, he feels more "guilty" and conflicted for what he's done (a lot of my more cunning "pickup/deflection" lines have been dropped). My new interpretation of this character assumes that he loves his wife, and his mistress, but realizes that he's made an awful, stupid mistake on his lie, and tells Celia, in order to not have it blow up in his face later. He seems like the guy who want's his cake, and to eat it too. Very insecure, although that was a feature of the way he was prior to the edits as well.
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