What techniques do actors use to cry on demand?

Question

What techniques do actors use to cry on demand?

Answer 1

draw on your own experiences. if there was something in your life that make you cry, use that to initiate the emotion. but be careful about what event. if you were crying because you were happy, don't draw from that experience to help you cry for a scene you are supposed to angry or  sad.

Answer 2

Well you first feel the characters emotions , second relate that to your life and think of a time wear you felt like crying and release your emotions

another trick is to get yourself to feel tired and yawn with your mouth closed and if you tear when you do yawn then you'll get extra tears

Another trick is that some actors use a saline or eyedrop for there crying scene

Answer 3

Never fake cry, it doesn't work and looks horrible.

You have to pull from bad experiences in life, that is what the Stanslavski method is about.  Subsitution is really good for acting.  You have to get prepared in advance for you to cry.  A week ago, I had to get emotional for a monologue, and my brother was annoying the heck out of me, and then he told me to say my monologue and I became furious and cried and yelled.  It was so great, he was doing it for my benefit.  I had a ton of adrenelin rushing through me, and I felt like a different person, because it is very rare for me to get mad at people.  You have to practice.  Sometimes you can use other people to manipulate you or tease you before a show or audition to help you capture the emotions that you need to portay.  It works really well, you have to keep it real.

Answer 4

I pull it from a really sad event in my life and it just happens naturally.

Answer 5

Sometimes child actors are really crying because the director tricks them. Some people just put on alot of blush and spray water on there faces. And some people use fake tears.

Answer 6

okay, but you have to remember: How long ago was that?

and the way they do it is they feel the emotions just like how you would start to well up if you heard somthing sad on the news or a movie you were watching...

all the emotions are real, but to make them work you have to know YOU ARE THE CHARACTER and THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING TO YOU.

You see?

Good Luck!!

Answer 7

A tear response is triggered by something in the back of the throat.  Someone has responded about yawning and that is correct to an extent.  You build up air in the back of your throat through the nose (you may have seen actors flair their nostrils before they cry) and hold it in until the tear ducts produce tears, from their you draw on emotions to help it come naturally.

Answer 8

i think most actors suffer from depression,which enables them to tear up easily