Parenting & Family Quote by Lusia Strus

Strus frames acting not as mystic transformation but as disciplined play, which is a quietly radical way to talk about a job that’s often sold as alchemy. “A child making believe” strips the craft of prestige language and replaces it with something more honest: the actor isn’t proving depth so much as committing to an agreed-upon illusion. That comparison also hints at stakes. Kids don’t half-play; they surrender to the game’s rules with total seriousness. Strus is arguing that professionalism in acting looks like that kind of wholeheartedness, not solemn self-importance.

The line “I’m not one to become a character” is a direct side-eye at the cult of Method, the idea that virtue lives in disappearing. Her subtext: you don’t need to erase yourself to be convincing. Instead, “I fall in love with the character” suggests an ethical posture as much as an emotional one. Love here isn’t gushy; it’s a decision to advocate for the character from the inside, to find their logic, to stop judging them long enough to make them legible to the audience.

Then she reaches for “faith,” a word that raises the temperature. Faith is belief without proof, a commitment in the absence of certainty. Acting, in her telling, is choosing to trust that the make-believe will hold, that the script’s world will support you if you leap into it. “For a while” keeps it sane: total commitment, temporary tenancy. You inhabit; you don’t get lost. That balance - surrender without self-erasure - is the real craft she’s naming.