Lucy Lane's Story

Yeah.

And I wonder if having that grounded-ness in your process now is something that you're noticing that carries into everyday life.

Do you feel like acting is helping you to experience your everyday world in a, in a different way?

Oh, absolutely.

Like 100%.

I think especially when it comes to, like, certain classes and stuff like that.

We had a class called Alexander Technique.

It's the Alexander work, and it's a lot about how thinking can affect your body.

And so we do a lot of like, "I'm not tensing in my face.

I'm not tensing in my shoulders," where we would usually have a lot of emotional and physical reaction and tension held up in us.

So while that works on stage, it also applies to day-to-day life.

Part of that grounding work, and that's truly been the main factor, is acting has taught me how to ground myself and release tension and be a more feeling and emotionally reactive human being.

I think that it's taught me how to care more deeply about everything, whether that's positive or negative, and genuinely be affected, once again, positive or negative, by circumstances or by what's being said to you.

Um, a lot of what we do is focusing on your partner.

Like, that's how you get affected, right? So all the attention should be put on your partner for your scene work.

And I think that that's been really helpful for, you know, just being a human being living life when it comes to self-absorbness or like, you know, things like that, where it's putting the attention off of yourself and onto other people, making the world go round.

Yeah.

And to have that attention and awareness on the other person, I imagine that would really focus your thoughts in the moment.

I know for me, being autistic with ADHD, I have, it's like I've got 10 thoughts going on [laughs] all at the same time.

Right, right.

[laughs] So do you feel like it does help you to be able to stay focused and grounded in the moment?

Absolutely.

There was a time in class, in my acting class, we were doing some Uta Hagen work.

It was her object exercises, where basically you- We were just doing activities and stuff that we would do in our day-to-day life, and then we had make a phone call.

And so we set up the acting space as if it was, like, our dorm room, and we were just literally doing our day-to-day.