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New Yorker cartoon about Mad Men. Kinda lame. :clueless:

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No but seriously man, there is some actor in the background (I think it's Oscar Isaacs representing A Most Violent Year?) Anyway he's babbling away in some vapid interview, and he just said that acting is like a tennis match - you're only as good as the person you're playing with.

What a terrible comparison.
 
I understand the tennis analogy. It's not totally crazy.

Playing racquet sports, your opponent's skill level does affect how you play. A less competent player will bring down your own level of play, in part because your shitty opponent is even less predictable than a good one would be. You're taken out of your comfort zone as someone who typically plays against much better players.

I can understand how that would also apply to acting.
 
Does not match my experience.

If he said that always playing with someone slightly better than you is a good way to improve ---> that, I would buy.

But tennis players at different levels where one just stomps all the fuck over the other ----> happened all the time in my cutthroat, tennis-to-the-death past.
 
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