Character, Actor and Performance: Why a Fictional Person Is More Than Canon

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A fictional person is not exhausted by canon, and a character is not exhausted by an actor’s appearance. What an audience finally encounters is produced through several transformations: an abstract person becomes a story-specific character, an actor embodies that character, and a performance realizes one path through the possibilities available in a scene.

Acting on Uni Matrix Zero

Character, Actor and Performance: Why a Fictional Person Is More Than Canon