Does anyone know how actors make themselves cry?

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I always wondered about this.

Bilboes · Accepted Answer

Well, it's a skill like any other. You basically learn how to trigger yourself. You try and place as much of yourself in the character's predicament as possible and react as they would. It helps if you can connect it to a real memory in your own life. The hardest thing is letting your social barriers down; most of us are socialized from an early age not to cry in front of others. Of course in films, you can totally cheat by cutting the camera away while the props guy puts saline drops in your eyes.

Miah05 · Accepted Answer

Some can just emotionally do it. Others use a cry stick. It slides under their eyes and makes their eyes water

AviatorTom · Answer

As an actor, they learn how to do that. And sometimes, they just use eye drops. The scene cuts, they put eyedrops in their eyes that cause tears, and the scene resumes. Once the movie is edited, the viewer doesn't know that the actor is not actually crying tears.

Daniela1982 · Answer

They put onion juice below the eye after cutting the take, and it causes them to water. That or they have some script girl show her boobs and tell the guy he will never get to fondle them. That might bring some tears.

ShesRad80 · Answer

some like Demi Moore can cry on demand, using traumatic events as motive. other actors use glycerin or other artificial tears, menthol sticks to make fake tears.

Anonymous · Answer

It's funny this apparently a big thing in the business. I remember listening to Mira Sorvino talking about how she had to learn to cry on command. And she was talking about her actor father Paul Sorvino always held that as one of the standards of a quality actor. Because they have a substance that the can dab below your eyes that will trigger your eyes to water. But it's one of those things that if you need that and can't produce it on your own then it's like you lack emotional range as an actor. So you're looked down on if you use it.

Drewtate · Answer

Probably think about all the sleazy shot that was done to them as child stars and what they have to sometimes do to get movie roles at those billionaire yacht parties.

WhiteSteve · Answer

Can’t remember for the life of me who said it, and I may have heard it all the way back in the 90s, so this is very dubiously sourced, haha, but I swear I remember some actor saying they’d put Vick’s VapoRub under their eyes so they’d water.

I’m sure some particularly good actors can just get themselves there emotionally, though, especially method actors.

roseloyaa · Answer

You got to think of a bad memory and immerse yourself with the character. All there's like this weird eye feeling thing that's apart of it 😂

Bricealan · Answer

Easily, by thinking to a very sad event in your life that brought you to tears more than once and still brings out the emotion. We have all had terrible moments or events, and that is what they think about.

I made a 'training film' for the Sheriffs department while in the academy and got best actor, because I brought 'anger' to a theme, from past 'real' angry situations.

Anemone978 · Answer

You just think about your most traumatizing thing that makes you cry.. but if you are a really good actor you can get into the feelings and emotions of the person you are playing and it will make you cry naturally..

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I have never made myself cry on purpose for a movie seen but if I'm in the right mood, I can cry easily, even if I'm not in severe pain which is usually what triggers tears. It's a mental frame of interpreting the world and a state of mind.

artgorgeous · Answer

Some really talented can drive themselves into emotional state and really start crying, and some are just using special eyedrops to force fake tears.

4ngelic · Answer

either they try to make themselves cry for real or they use tear inducing sticks under their eyes or fake tears

BCRanger10 · Answer

Digging into past pain or trauma? Listening to sad music or watching a sad video before? They're just that into the scene and the character?

Fuentes · Answer

Working themselves up and thinking about emotional stuff I embr hearing a story where when actors do argument parts they would yell at eachother a lot before hand and then go on and commit that performance hahhaa

Anonymous · Answer

i think they have someone just off camera that starts yanking out a pube 1 at a time until they start crying

Anonymous · Answer

One actress said she had cried real tears for her scene by remembering a tragic event that happened in her life years earlier.

Sparkie460 · Answer

Someone punched him in his balls. That would make any guy cry

Anonymous · Answer

They use eyedrops, onions, water, if they’re bad actors. Top tier actors think of sad events in their lives, and peoples rent that are due

TrueConfection · Answer

I'm no not sure. It seems like a lot of artists tend to have more emotional trauma than others, so maybe it's not too difficult? 🤷

rigmarole · Answer

They think about all the sexual abuse the agreed to undergo to land the job.

catarecute · Answer

by thinking of something super sad.

Lliam · Answer

I think Bilboes answer is spot on.

MementoMori777 · Answer

I think that they think of sad shit

Paris13 · Answer

Play the Part!!! THAT is A Great Actor. xxoo

astrophelle · Answer

They use eye drops for crying!

boobliker · Answer

think of something that made you very sad and work on it

BLP11520 · Answer

Think about some person dying

Anonymous · Answer

Vicks vapor rub to the eyes

OfDeath · Answer

He blew the camera guy.

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