Smallville Magazine: The Last Stand....

[dawnybee]

I saw the final issue of Smallville Magazine and I leafed through it with no intention of buying it---until I got to the last page. Who is featured on the very last page of the very last issue of Smallville Magazine? Why Ari Cohen, that’s Regan Matthews if you’re nasty, so I had to buy it.

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[dawnybee]

I'm always so touched to hear how much thought and feeling actors put into their roles, whether those roles are big or small. That's what saves Smallville for me. The writing may make no sense at times, and TPTB may definitely smoke crack, but the actors pour their hearts and souls into this show, and I worship them for it.

There have been monumental moments on SV and the writing doesn’t make me gasp with its simple perfection like HBO’s “Six Feet Under” did, but it’s the cast’s earnestness and selling it that makes it work. It couldn’t work without such capable actors.
Acting fascinates and mystifies me, because I have no idea how they do it. My mom put me in acting classes in elementary school at the advice of the school psychologist, because I was so painfully shy, and I took them on and off all the way through high school. But I was never any good. :) I could never let go and make myself truly vulnerable by pulling forth my inner emotions and exposing them to the world in a performance.

I think that’s the hard part of acting: letting yourself be open and vulnerable. I took an improv class in college because I was taking any and everything to get me closer to my degree, so I was backed into it and luckily I had a hippy-dippy professor who passed you just for showing up because I certainly couldn’t do what others were doing in that class because I am not open like that. I can’t do that in crowds and it’s a true testament of an actor of their ability to let it go and leave out all artifice whether comedy or drama. And to respect the craft that even if you’re doing a play on Broadway or a series on a little 5th network, the ability to treat it all equal and to give it your all is a testament to how much acting means to Jensen and these other actors.