"Perfection? Being the most human you can be"
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“Perfection?” lands like a scoff, not a goal. Giovanni Morassutti, speaking from an actor’s profession, flips the usual aspiration on its head: the polished, uncracked ideal isn’t just unattainable, it’s artistically boring. In performance, “perfect” often reads as airbrushed - technically correct, emotionally dead. His definition reroutes the word toward something messier and harder: presence, contradiction, vulnerability, impulse. The kind of truth that doesn’t look like mastery so much as exposure.
The subtext is a quiet rebellion against the algorithmic pressure to curate a life that appears seamless. In a culture that rewards optimization - the best body, the best productivity system, the best personality package - Morassutti’s line argues that perfection is not the absence of flaws but the full acceptance of them as signal, not noise. “Most human” implies the whole spectrum: tenderness and pettiness, courage and avoidance, generosity and self-protection. It’s not a romanticization of chaos; it’s a demand for honesty.
As an actor’s credo, it also gestures at craft. The work isn’t to eliminate your tells but to study them, to turn lived experience into specificity. Audiences don’t connect to immaculate; they connect to recognizable. By posing perfection as a question, Morassutti invites us to interrogate who benefits from the old definition - and why we keep chasing a standard that, when finally approximated, can make us harder to love and harder to believe.
The subtext is a quiet rebellion against the algorithmic pressure to curate a life that appears seamless. In a culture that rewards optimization - the best body, the best productivity system, the best personality package - Morassutti’s line argues that perfection is not the absence of flaws but the full acceptance of them as signal, not noise. “Most human” implies the whole spectrum: tenderness and pettiness, courage and avoidance, generosity and self-protection. It’s not a romanticization of chaos; it’s a demand for honesty.
As an actor’s credo, it also gestures at craft. The work isn’t to eliminate your tells but to study them, to turn lived experience into specificity. Audiences don’t connect to immaculate; they connect to recognizable. By posing perfection as a question, Morassutti invites us to interrogate who benefits from the old definition - and why we keep chasing a standard that, when finally approximated, can make us harder to love and harder to believe.
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| Topic | Wisdom |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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