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I don't get it. Is 90 pages supposed to be a lot of text for a professional actor?
90 pages of backstory? Entirely aside from the actual script containing the dialogue he has to read?
I don't know whether that's a lot—not having conversed with any professional actors—but I strongly suspect the answer is yes.
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This is the internet. Simply proclaim you are an actor and confidently answer yes!
Hello, I am Paul Newman, the famous actor.
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90 pages of backstop is significant, yes. When I got the role of Theodore in Alvin and the Chipmunks, I was bitterly disappointed by the lack of depth of the character. Almost no backstory was given to me.
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On the other hand, my rendition of Dig'em the frog for Smacks was greatly improved by the 400 hundred pages lore of the character. I became the frog.
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