My experience playing a robber in "Super"-Hero!

Welcome back bloggers! In today's post, I will be discussing my acting role in our film, "Super"-Hero, that being of course one of the robbers! 

    

Robbers from left to right: Pablo, Myself, Pedro

Getting accustomed to the role!

Getting into the mindset of a robber straight out of a cartoon was BY NO MEANS the easiest thing in the world. I remember on our first day of filming I kept trying out different accents, mannerisms, and different ways I could add to the character. Particularly, on the first day of filming I got carried away with doing a Russian accent for the robber, but we didn't film nearly enough for the accent to make much of a difference. Then, after renovating our entire game plan, I had the opportunity to try something different with my character during the Power-Man confrontation. I decided I'd go for a sarcastic and somewhat cocky personality since I thought it would blend well with Power-Man's own extravagance. In theory AND in practice, this ended up working super well for the confrontation, since it allowed us to highlight Power-Man's own over-the-top mannerisms in contrast to the seemingly normal robbers. All in all, I'm SUPER happy with how both my character and the rest of the cast turned out to be in the film! 

What I learned!

Before getting into this project, even before we had settled on "Super"-Hero as an idea, I knew I wanted to play some sort of antagonist. I thought playing a bad guy would be second nature for me specifically because of my own personality and voice, and to an extent I was right! I didn't necessarily have any issues acting my parts out, except for the scene where we first saw Power-Man but that was because being mentally prepared for Pedro screaming "MAN WHO IS THAT?" right behind me came with its own set of challenges. If there was one main lesson I learned from my experience in playing this robber, it's that physically acting is not as easy as some people make it seem. Acting is not just putting on a cool voice and moving around, and it encompasses COUNTLESS smaller details. Sometimes you need certain small head tilts, or wait a few milliseconds before moving a single limb, and especially you need to literally BECOME the character you play. These were all things that I tried my best to tackle head-on, especially since it was my robber character who would confront Power-Man, but with limited time and a fairly exhausted crew I had to go with what I knew for certain I could pull off and not experiment too much. What I do know is that if we had as many filming days as we wanted with infinite energy, I would probably have played a VERY different character than the one I played on-screen, but for what we had, I turned out pretty good!