overact
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“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
That may cause audiences not to really believe in the performances, but in film, because this acting happens in front of the camera, you don’t have to overact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019
Mr. Kline does not overact; it’s his character who does, and it’s important to recognize the distinction.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
He loved to exaggerate, to act and overact the momentary part, to exercise his lungs and muscles, and to speak and laugh with his whole body.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The film suggests Moose is on the autism spectrum, but Travolta overacts at every opportunity, magnifying every emotion and gesture, such as Moose's penchant to rock back and forth.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2019
De Niro never overacts like Pacino, but his downward slide has been no less excruciating to witness.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2015
Keaton rises to the formidable challenge of underacting as an actor who overacts.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2014
Regarding the cast, Puig says that Ray Liotta "overacts" in his role as Ryan's stern preacher father and Ashley Judd "dully plays" his mother, while the narration is "heavy-handed" and "clunky."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
Inwardly she added: "He overacts the part dreadfully."
From Chip, of the Flying U by Charles M. Russell
The night I saw it, not all of that singing was precisely on key, and the child nearest me overacted wretchedly.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2022
He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
Or perhaps you will come to feel that you’ve overacted and yet still want to involve the school to prevent further issues.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019
But the transformation is so sudden — and, frankly, badly overacted by Guthrie, who seems to have forgotten that he’s playing a single human being, not two — that the tragedy rings hollow.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016
He overacted the part, but it was convincing enough for the scriv accompanying me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
“Fiddler” can sometimes occasion a flood of overacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
They can reveal if the people caught in action are hiding from the camera or posing for it, and if they are speaking naturally or being loud and overacting.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023
My sister told me I was overacting and should just move my office into my bedroom or closet.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2023
Even Leeds’ Thespians on Demand, the famed English acting troupe known far and wide for their loud voices and shameless overacting, could not hold a candle to this family.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
