If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then … - Cate Blanchett

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Susannah. " My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah. . . . " Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.

Cate Blanchett

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

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