overacting

“I wanted to direct cartoon characters that gave me performances full of truth, full of emotion, full of sincerity, where they are not overacting,” Berger says.

Then came the guards yelling, recordings that Burn monitored for overacting.

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.

To call it overacting is an insult to acting.

“If he thought an extra was overacting, he would try to change it,” Stevens said.