21.   Both actors play their roles so trickily that tensions escalate until the horror grows unimaginatively gothic.

22.   But a week into rehearsals, the actor playing Wilde was dismissed and he got the part.

23.   Cedar said he worked hard to get his secular actors to play religious characters naturally.

24.   Each actor plays at least two roles, one puritanical, another libidinously unrestrained.

25.   Except for Elise and Daniel E. Smith as the son, however, the other actors are mostly playing types.

26.   Far from being mean-spirited, the series seems fond of these big babies, deftly played by actors who make their behavior unnervingly natural.

27.   Few actors have played big, dumb guys as convincingly over the years as Tony Danza.

28.   Explain that actors play people in stories that writers make up, and a camera records the action.

29.   For take eight, the actors play the hell out of the scene.

30.   For the most part, the actors are playing parodies of themselves.