Are tear sticks cheating??

Everyone in Hollywood knows about the tear stick and if they don't talk about the tear stick, it's because it's Hollywood's best kept secret. The movie Theater Camp makes a pretty funny joke about it. She's using. Lift up your hands. Tear stick. It's just chapstick. I swear. Give it to me. Oh, my God. Mackenzie, I'm not mad. I'm just furious. Your tears should come from within. So this kind of addresses the dilemma. Is it cheating for actors? As someone who's gone many years without a tear stick and only discovered it this past year, I think it's great. Is it the first thing I pull out when I'm doing an emotional scene? No. A tear stick without any emotional depth or inner work behind the tear stick will not work. However, I think it is great to have to take the pressure off of yourself to cry. They're also great if you have to do so many takes over a long period of time. It's also great if you have to start a scene where you've been crying and your face is puffy and your eyes are red. This clip is from an interview between Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal. It changed my life. Why? Because I fought it for so long. I was like, I this is cheating. -It helps you have the real-It's the best. Have the real emotion. Yeah, the tears produce the emotion rather than the emotion producing the tears. At the end of the day, your job is to make the audience feel the feeling. It actually doesn't matter if you feel the feeling.