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Have you ever experienced seeing an actor/actress cry a load of tears in one project and then expect them to cry in their next
I have two examples; Natalie Portman sheds a bakers dozen of tears in Anywhere But Here but in her next project Where The Heart Is doesn't cry at all despite her character going through different but still emotional circumstances (No spoilers)
Similarly Kathryn Newton has tears running down her cheeks in six episodes of The Society but doesn't cry in Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania. There was a couple of instances where she could have shed a tear but nothing
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I usually think up scenarios while watching a movie I haven't seen before. Like "I think her boyfriend will die and then hopefully we'll see her cry".
I hoped Scarlett Johansson had a proper crying scene in Endgame.