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mk  ·  4422 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Child Actor Henry Thomas's Audition For E.T. (Nails It)

He really was incredible in that role.

As an aside, it would be really interesting to do an fMRI on actors as they get into character. I have to imagine that they have an enhanced ability to alter certain brain activity that divides what we experience from what we only think about.

I think we react to Thomas because in some real way, he is actually experiencing the role.