Sometimes people giggle when they feel emotionally overwhelmed. It is often taken as an inappropriate response, which an experienced actor has probably encounte

Sometimes people giggle when they feel emotionally overwhelmed. It is often taken as an inappropriate response, which an experienced actor has probably encountered. A number of times, in a rehearsal of an intense scene, we would all lose it like that. You learn to work through it as you develop a sense of your character's role in the whole process of storytelling. (Some HN readers may not recognize the name of the author, Charles Petzold. He wrote many crucial Windows programming books, most notably the first standard tome of Win32 development. Our instructor referred to Windows UI programming as "the Petzoldy stuff".