I have always been taught that the most effective acting comes from being able to put yourself in your characters shoes, try to make that characters reality as real to you as possible embody that and then show that. I found it very interesting that Diderot seemed to think the opposite.

I wonder though what kind of effect his philosophy of how to act would have had on the acting we see today? What if more people tried to act based off of trying to just create the “illusion” of that character rather than become the character?