Hollywood star David Corenswet reveals the secret to playing a bad actor
about portraying an actor who's maybe not the best as his craft in the new Netflix dramaIn the limited series, Corenswet plays Jack Costello, a young man who dreams of making it big in 1940s Tinseltown — the only problem is that he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. When Jack finally lands a screen test by sleeping with a casting director , he bombs, spending the entire audition yelling his lines and turning his face away from the camera.
As a Juilliard graduate, Corenswet is no slouch when it comes to his own performances. So how does a classically trained actor portray a hopeless, ham-fisted one? "We're playing characters who are themselves actors, who in the show are making a movie where they have to be acting as well," he says of the challenge. "You're going three layers deep, where nobody knows who anybody is or what acting is anymore at all.
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