Look at the face of the other. . . discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.
To improv-nerd-out for a second, it's like the most aggressive yes-anding you can do - if someone's like, "Yeah, you're super thin, right?" And you just pull that into a character and do seven more episodes of the podcast and remember to bring that up.