Acting for the Camera

In an acting class, a young woman is called upon to recreate the Meg Ryan restaurant orgasm-sound-effect scene from the movie When Harry Met Sally. The Instructor seems virtually impossible to please, bringing to mind J K Simmons' role from Whiplash. Indeed, his questions become so overtly and intrusively personal that one cannot but help feel sympathy for the erstwhile efforts of the female lead to both answer and do her best in recreating the scene. The part with the imagined puppy was excruciatingly difficult and seemingly pointless.

On the whole, it does lead one to wonder whether 'acting', particularly 'for the camera', is actually a process of revealing parts of oneself or putting on an otherwise completely alien persona.