Star as Performer

Stars-as-celebrities who are famous by “being themselves”, and star-as-professionals is known by others by “act as themselves” which is putting a lot of effort by creating consistent image or role of them. For the stars-as-performers, they become famous by trying to play with difference roles as they not really want to be the same role that known by others. Due to the expansion of celebrities’ side, not only film stars can dominate in the entertainment field but the pop musicians and soap stars.

So that it arouses a phenomenon which is quite a lot of film stars get into stars-as-performers, in order to re-establish their stars status by giving the meaning in their acting and subtext, they emphasize on body language, gesture, not just acting for acting. The stars-as-performers expose to method acting, which is some techniques that actors use to bring themselves into the character to know their thought and feelings, in other words, it’s a technique of merging self and character. There are several actors switch from star-as-professional to star-as-performer which is Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and star-as-celebrities to star-as-performer is Johnny Depp.