portraying

Here he is invoking another evangelical tradition by portraying himself as a commander who will fight a spiritual war on behalf of his congregation.

How did you approach portraying that kind of grief honestly without it being too much for the audience to bear?

But Clooney's performance goes much deeper than that, portraying an actor who finds himself feeling strangely empty as he reflects on his life choices.

“Perhaps portraying weight loss would be less harmful if long-term weight loss was generally achievable,” the study’s authors write.

Because he was portraying the unit’s leader, Murphy, he was tasked with leading the actors in a drill in which they would be ambushed in the woods by the SEALs training them.