Scorsese's audition method has a hidden structure: exhaust every conscious, prepared version of the performance, then wait for the only one that can't be prepared. Fifty failed takes aren't a problem to solve — they're the process of burning through every rehearsed option until something involuntary is left. The actor's preparation is the fuel; the breakdown is the ignition.
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