It seemed to me that Rockcliffe Fellows, as Randolph, was altogether too actorish. I should have preferred John Bowers, the altogether natural mild villain, in this part. |
He clearly didn't have much real life experience of cats and insisted on giving us actorish miaows while the Cat was sneaking up on the Bird. |
Everything about these storylines, and the various one-on-one confrontation scenes they are allotted, look like they have been devised through improv in rehearsal, and look stagey, shrill and actorish. |
Ask a few actorish questions about creativity and motivation and he bats them back with a quip about needing the money. |
Do not be too frightened of making your characters perform exaggerated, actorish gestures. |
Jones was born in 1966 and grew up in Oxford in a very actorish household. |