Very few actors can convincingly play someone very different from themselves and we tend to lionize those that can. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Johnny

Very few actors can convincingly play someone very different from themselves and we tend to lionize those that can. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Johnny Depp. It appears to me that most actors go to school to learn trope behaviors so they can become working actors that churn out mass market performances.