• Y&R...Socially distanced acting?

    From Legend@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 1 16:17:51 2020
    I know I mentioned it in a response a few days ago, but does anyone else notice how far the actors stand from each other? (I don't watch B&B, so didn't comment there). Adam, all angry at Billy, walks in the room furiously, and keeps standing six feet
    away? Hardly believable!

    On a more subtle note, which I actually noticed earlier, does anyone notice a...well, I can only call it a slower style of acting? I noticed it first with Chelsea and Phyllis, but most have now adopted the style. Maybe cutting down the need for too much
    talking?

    Oh...for the days when covid will be under control!

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  • From Zob@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 1 21:54:30 2020
    On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT), Legend <livinnow@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    I know I mentioned it in a response a few days ago, but does anyone else notice how far the actors stand from each other? (I don't watch B&B, so didn't comment there). Adam, all angry at Billy, walks in the room furiously, and keeps standing six feet
    away? Hardly believable!

    On a more subtle note, which I actually noticed earlier, does anyone notice a...well, I can only call it a slower style of acting? I noticed it first with Chelsea and Phyllis, but most have now adopted the style. Maybe cutting down the need for too much
    talking?

    Oh...for the days when covid will be under control!

    It doesn't really bother me because I understand why they have to do
    it this way. It's better than no soaps, and it supports a lot of jobs
    for the actors, production crew, makeup and hair artists, etc. But
    like you, I'll be glad when they can get back to normal.

    I live in Massachusetts and am an avid, lifelong Boston Red Sox
    baseball fan. That has been even weirder. The regular baseball
    season just ended and was shortened from 120 to 60 games with some
    strange changes. They had cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands to
    make it look like there were people, and piped-in background crowd
    noise in the stadiums to try to give it the "feel" of games in front
    of fans. And strangely, once I got used to it, it worked. I found
    myself engrossed in the games themselves and got used to the fake fans
    and fake sounds which kind of faded into the back of my mind.
    It's been pretty much the same with the soaps' social distancing and
    other staging changes. In fact, I think they're doing a pretty good
    job of making it work considering the obstacles of shows that are
    based on romance with almost no closeness allowed.

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