I tend to think that stage acting is real acting and film acting is not. The reasons for this are easily explained: on stage you have to hold an audience for two hours or more in real time. It is all down to how convincing you are. On film performances are created on the cutting-room floor and far too many film actors never change their personalities nor act at all, they are just a presence.
Yet of course it is the film actors who have all the fame, are feted as great actors and make a fortune. Some are good actors but you only know it when you see them on stage.
I have looked askance at much of the world and realise this observance of actors holds true in many places. To such an extent that now when I hear someone being extolled I look at them closely and wonder if they are truly worthy or just lucky or have played the system. It is rather a pessimistic view of human society to be so disaffected but I have no trust of other people’s acceptance of what true talent is because too many people are merely playing the populace for the money fame is worth.
Our finest leaders no longer emerge because they will have nothing to do with modern politicking, masterly Artists don’t sell because they are not part of a movement, and even at the lower end of the career market manipulation gets you further than real talent.
Every thinker from Cicero to Shakespeare has seen the same thing in society. The reality is the second-rate has always held sway.