Leitmotif.

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An idea or a phrase that is repeated often in a book or work of art, or is typical of a particular person or group. A dominant recurring theme.

Inspired by the rich architecture of Wagner's music on an epic story, John Williams chose to score the first Star Wars and subsequent films using leitmotif .

Finding the leitmotif in the screenplay can guide you to best represent the author’s wishes.

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Interpretation.

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Is the act of explaining, reframing, or otherwise showing your own understanding of something. A person who translates one language into another is called an interpreter because they are explaining what a person is saying to someone who doesn't understand.

His unique interpretation of the Liszt études.

The actor takes a written piece and interprets the role. They aren't the creator, but rather the interpreter.

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Relaxation.

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The state of feeling calm and not anxious or worried.

Some people take up yoga to aid relaxation.

In his work to find methods for actors to recreate the source emotions they found when creating a role Konstantin Stanislavsky discovered relaxation and concentration to be key. Relaxation could also be described as: at ease, comfortable, dropped in, confident, in the zone or on top of the work – all the ideal place for your mind to be when acting.

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Responsibility.

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Something that it is your job or duty to deal with.

But the White House has intensified it by devolving responsibility to the states.
Ed Yong, “We Live in a Patchwork Pandemic Now”, The Atlantic, 2020

Producers must be responsible in how they now make movies, so there is a safe workplace and the actors are not put in the untenable position of having to exercise their right to refuse to work.

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Participation.

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The process or fact of sharing in an action, sentiment, etc...active involvement in a matter or event, especially one in which the outcome directly affects those taking part.

Many persons are shut out from any participation in political power.
J. Bright, Speeches

It’s your activity in an artistic endeavour such as a play or film. Or when you make that crucial collegial agreement to throw the ball back and forth with your scene partner. It’s the opposite of being a bystander. If you’re participating you can take it easy.

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Humiliation.

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The action of humiliating or condition of being humiliated; humbling, abasement.

I think ‘humiliation’ is a very different condition of mind from humility. ‘Humiliation’ no man can desire; it is shame and torture.
G. MacDonald Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, 1878

You can be humiliated by being paid minimum; you can be humiliated by not being given credit by casting; you can be humiliated by American producers for being Canadian; you can be humiliated as a woman; you can be humiliated by the collective agreement not being fulfilled; you can be humiliated by not having a say in the industry; you can be humiliated by not getting work; you can be humiliated by working long hours; you can be humiliated by having to promote a movie; you can be humiliated by themes of violence, racism, sexism; you can be humiliated by not having freedom of speech.

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Assimilate.

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To convert into a substance of its own nature, as the bodily organs convert food into blood, ...to absorb into the system, incorporate.

Vegetables decompose the carbonic acid, assimilate the carbon and set the oxygen free.
— M. Somerville Molecular & Microsc. Sci. (1869)

With repeated practice you assimilate an idea and then it’s in you.

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