Performance is Greater Than Life

Daniel Day Lewis versus in-game "animations"

There’s a reason great actors are paid so well: they make us feel. We fear for them, cheer for them, fall in love with them. They carry entire films on their shoulders.

And acting is hard.

Take a biopic. Who’s more prepared to play the role than the actual person? They know every thought, every motivation, every moment of their life. Yet a producer will c…