A clean script is an incomplete object: it might contain all the lines, but it’s only a fragment of the information an actor needs to give a detailed and accomplished performance. That’s where ...

Examples of actors going off script in movies Here are some examples of successful improvisation to learn from. Robert Downey Jr., “Iron Man” — “I am Iron Man.” ...

Writing a movie's script is usually left to the behind-the-scenes team, but sometimes the actors in front of the camera have something to say about it.

I’m told that many of the actors vying to play superheroes in Marvel Comics films, Spider-Man included, didn’t get to read entire scripts when they were testing.

(I’ve even seen some actors cross out all the punctuation in a script, so that questions can be read as statements and vice versa. Someone told me it’s because Christopher Walken is said to do ...