Pretending. Make-believe. Fairytales. Storytime. All of these child-activities are a form of acting. You might wonder about adult actors who do the same thing in their multi-million dollar movies. Is becoming an actor a path to never having to grow up? Maybe - and who could blame Dustin Hoffman for diving into the role of Mr. Magorium? Or Nicole Kidman as Samantha in Bewitched?
Remember when, as a child, your mother would read aloud a story to you? Think of those images that formed in your head as you imagined how the scene would look, or the color of a character's hair, or the scowling expression on the witch's face. What if someone invited you to come up on stage or to stand before a camera where you could pretend to be that character you so vividly saw in your imagination?
Kids have so little power in their everyday lives. But when they are given the opportunity to act, to perform a story, everything changes. Through the characters they create, the stories they tell through their performances, children can feel the power of personal expression. And isn't that what Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman do best? Expressing the many facets of their personalities and their abilities for all the world to see.
Where there's pretend play, there's freedom.
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