To move audience, allow yourself to feel deeply – Toyin Alausa

Toyin Alausa

Award-winning actress Toyin Alausa has spoken on the art of acting, noting that it requires more than simply memorising scripts.

In her Instagram post, Alausa explained that true acting demands surrendering to the moment and harmonising emotions with technical skills to create authentic performances.

She stated that to move an audience, actors must first embrace and experience deep emotions themselves.

“Acting is not just about memorising lines; it’s about surrendering yourself to the moment, training both your emotions and your skills until they become one. To make an audience feel, you must first allow yourself to feel deeply,” she wrote.

Toyin Alausa highlighted the discipline, vulnerability, and hours of perfecting the craft that go into creating emotional scenes, such as crying on screen, adding that acting is “lived, not faked”.

“Every crying scene you see on screen takes discipline, vulnerability and countless hours of perfecting the art. This is why we say acting is lived, not faked,” she added.