There’s a moment actors rarely describe in public—not the tears on camera, not the director yelling “Cut,” but the silence right after. The room exhales, the crew resets, someone offers a robe or a water bottle… and the actor realizes their body didn’t get the memo that it was “just acting.
That question—how trauma “rebounds” onto the performer—is suddenly back in the spotlight as fans revisit Queer as Folk and as today’s actors speak more openly about the mental and physical toll of intimate or extreme scenes.
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