overact

Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

While we weren’t making an actual game, and I’m no professional actor, I did have attempt to rein in my desire to overact, thinking I needed big bombastic movements for animators to play with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

No need to project, let alone overact, here; I heard him as clearly as if he were sitting next to me.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

"You overact your part," said young Wharton, in constant apprehension of discovery; "your zeal is too intemperate."

From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper

She overacts, sings her way through conversations, puts on affected accents, responds to normal requests in a histrionic manner, and generally treats our home like a little Broadway theatre.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2021

In support, Toni Collette overacts, deliberately and effectively, while David Thewlis makes each verision of the character he plays interesting.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2020

He is also someone who overthinks, overacts and overshares.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2015

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

He overacts the office of an interpreter," I cite again from Howell, "who doth enslave himself too strictly to words or phrases.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton

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

For a second I thought she was going to run into my arms as if we were reunited lovers in some overacted Aturan tragedy.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Julian Fellowes’s 19th-century drama is still a festival of overacting and narrative absurdity, yet it feels increasingly clever in its theatricality—and Carrie Coon remains a marvel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The overacting is exhausting because it’s not only Iñárritu’s creative choice, but rather the methods employed by the play-within-a-movie’s director.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

The outsize nature of the production invites overacting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

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