Well, I may not be a movie star per say but I'm an actress who lives in Hollywood! (Or thereabouts, won't get too specific here.) That kind of makes me a Hollywood actress, right? Lol.

I am not a lip curler. I don't know which face shapes you have observed cause lip curling, but I have a pretty small, pointed chin and lips that aren't particularly full. Naturally, I am actually the dreaded "smiley crier," even when sad I make a face that resembles smiling while I cry.

Anyway, your theory is very correct when it comes to theater/play acting. On stage, you can't "lose it" too badly or the audience will not be able to understand you through your sobs. This goes double for musicals. So you need to hold back, breath carefully, and keep careful control of your voice. This can result in the kind of sobbing you described.

My experience is that screen acting is a lot more lenient here. However, some directors can be annoyingly particular about everything: the way you enunciate each word, the way you move your body, and yes, even the way you cry. I have been told to sob or make faces in a way that is not natural to me. I do not like directors like this because I feel like they don't let me do my job. Like, I might cry slightly differently as a certain character than I would as myself IRL, but I think that is up to me to decide as the actress. And some things, like lip curling or husky-sounding sobs, are so unnatural to my body and my way of expressing emotion that having to do them takes me out of character and messes me up. But maybe this is something that I need to work on, too.

My experience is that most actors in larger parts/higher quality productions are showing real emotion. The degree of that can vary, but there is always something real there.

Just my two cents. I got cast in something new this summer and there is a monologue in which my character isn't directed to cry but is then described as "wiping her eyes" afterward. I'm already thinking about how to do

Yes, I like it a lot.

To the person who asked, omorashi is a fetish for people wetting themselves. Weird I know, but for some of us it ties into the hurt/comfort fetish. Or vulnerability. It does for me, anyway.

Not sure if anyone else deals with this. I am bi, though you wouldn't know it from seeing me post here. Why? Because my fetish only applies to men. I think it's because I am sexually attracted to women, but there is no taboo surrounding women crying or being vulnerable. With men, needless to say there is.

Honestly, when I see women cry, whether or not I find them attractive, I feel sad myself and feel their pain too much. With attractive men I might feel bad for them, but my own emotions are clouded by how hot I find it. (It's the same in TV and movies. If a female character cries I am far more likely to cry, too, but if it's a hot guy I just get fetishy! Lol.) And when men I don't find attractive cry... well, if it's a serious reason I feel bad for them but feel extremely uncomfortable, and if it's a dumb reason I feel downright annoyed. I don't show it, but I feel that way.

One small fantasy of mine regarding women and crying is being consoled by a female lover who is a little older than me. This is unusual because in my male fantasies, I never want to be the one crying. But even so, this is my only crying fantasy about women and it pales in comparison to how strong my ones about men are.

Is anyone else here bi and can relate? Are you bi but you only like one gender crying, or you're bi but you have different kinds of crying fantasies about women than about men? Just curious.

I'd rather be able to hire a handsome guy to cry on MY shoulder! 

He did shed real tears! He can do it almost on command, kind of amazing. (Honestly without real tears it would have fallen flat for me.) One of the best things that happened was getting to dry his tears for him. At one point I actually pulled a handkerchief out of my cleavage (as much as I have, lol, I am not that well endowed) and wiped his tears. And because runny noses are like, my biggest crying thing, he was under strict orders NOT to try and keep that back. Which I think he thought was funny, but he wasn't self conscious. In this business people aren't really self conscious about anything.

We only did it as foreplay. I personally am not into the idea of crying during sex, and since it isn't his fetish he didn't care either way. So he'd weep, get me all hot and bothered, and then once that roleplay ended it was physical time. Can't complain.

It was interesting, because I got to be on the other end, too, indulging a fetish that I don't have, which was his foot/shoe thing. While it didn't turn me on exactly, I really enjoyed the attention I got from being someone's fantasy. Like, this weird random part of me that I'd never really thought about before being suddenly worshiped. I think that was how he felt about the crying.