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“Fiddler” can sometimes occasion a flood of overacting.

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“I wanted to direct cartoon characters that gave me performances full of truth, full of emotion, full of sincerity, where they are not overacting,” Berger says.

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It's hard to capture just how blatantly studied and overacted and false Britt’s entire spiel was.

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Then came the guards yelling, recordings that Burn monitored for overacting.

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They can reveal if the people caught in action are hiding from the camera or posing for it, and if they are speaking naturally or being loud and overacting.

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