"I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance"
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There is something disarmingly practical in Hall's praise of theater: it is not about prestige, craft mythology, or even the "magic" of the stage. It is about feedback loops. "Being in front of an audience" is the real engine here, because theater is the only mainstream performance medium where the crowd's energy is not a distant metric but a live, physical force. Hall frames acting less as self-expression than as a relationship: performer and audience co-author the night, and the work changes because the room changes.
The line also reads as a quiet rebuttal to the assumptions that follow a career built on image. As a model, Hall's public persona is often treated as fixed: a look, a pose, a brand. Theater offers the opposite value system. A character "grows and develops with every performance" suggests permission to be unfinished, to revise, to fail in public and improve tomorrow. That's a creative freedom modeling rarely grants, where the camera freezes you into a single authoritative moment.
Subtext: control. Modeling can make you the subject of other people's choices (photographers, editors, consumers). Theater, even inside a director's vision, returns a kind of authorship through repetition. Each performance is another chance to calibrate intention, rhythm, vulnerability. Hall's "so much" is doing cultural work too, insisting on sincerity and labor in a space that often expects glamour to be effortless. It is a statement about wanting to be taken seriously, but on terms that feel alive rather than curated.
The line also reads as a quiet rebuttal to the assumptions that follow a career built on image. As a model, Hall's public persona is often treated as fixed: a look, a pose, a brand. Theater offers the opposite value system. A character "grows and develops with every performance" suggests permission to be unfinished, to revise, to fail in public and improve tomorrow. That's a creative freedom modeling rarely grants, where the camera freezes you into a single authoritative moment.
Subtext: control. Modeling can make you the subject of other people's choices (photographers, editors, consumers). Theater, even inside a director's vision, returns a kind of authorship through repetition. Each performance is another chance to calibrate intention, rhythm, vulnerability. Hall's "so much" is doing cultural work too, insisting on sincerity and labor in a space that often expects glamour to be effortless. It is a statement about wanting to be taken seriously, but on terms that feel alive rather than curated.
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