Reply #8: what do people with limited intelligence often try to do - think of BUSH

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They try to compensate for their deficits.

They concentrate harder

They try to "sound" intelligent, mangling words along the way

They work really hard to try and figure something out

They sound especially stupid when they try to sound "profound"

If the director is telling you to exagerate, try exagerating the effort to overcome stupidity, rathern than playing what you think stupdity looks like.

Think about Jean Stapleton as Edith in All in the Family, had hard she had to work to grasp a concept, and when she finally got it, the sheer joy of understanding something.

Think of an area where you feel deficient, and how you tried to make up for being weak in that area.

A mean person who has an need to suddenly act nice will act overly nice.

A clumsey person will go to physical extremes to try and not knock stuff over. That's where the comedy comes from.

So if you're stupid, try playing - trying to act really super smart