Actors and writers share a common purpose, do we not, that of communications?
Specifically, it’s up to the writers to communicate character and story via text and subtext, and it’s up to the actors to bring the text and subtext alive for the audience.
And yet – there are so many conflicts between the two subdivisions (for lack of a better name) throughout pre-production, production, and post-production of every TV episode and film that sometimes it seems impossible for both writers and actors to share the same goal…