I was at Mark Kermode’s live stage show MK3D last Monday (his 100th show). Mark’s lifelong friend and frequent guest Jason Isaacs had this to say, describing the 3 stages of rapid emotional response he feels as an actor whenever a director approaches him after a scene to give him notes:
“Fuck you! Oh god I’m so shit. OK, what?”
Isn’t that perfect? Rejection, self-doubt, then resiliently embracing feedback on something you’ve worked hard at to do well. A familiar sequence that gets shorter and more comfortable with age and practice.
