your answer to my question was so interesting cause I'm an actor too (starting out) and when acting my diction just gets so clear, I hadn't realised that's the tip of but you're so right! but that got me thinking and I've found also that being autistic I personally get hyper-verbal when angry and very clear, cutting and precise like I'm using a script from pre-prepared arguments and I think that this really fits Armand's characterisation as well as he's someone who's always 'masking' in ways I think and clearly has a lot of suppressed thoughts he usually doesn't voice as he's tightly controlled in how much he shares. so I think Assad being a trained theatre actor really serves Armand's character in even more ways. :)
ooo, i wish you all the fucking best with ur starting endeavors in acting! i never got into that as i said even though i love it, but funnily, enough, a lot of the speech techniques passed around for actors also gets to people in public speaking and debate, which i do have a lot of experience with.
so with that in mind, i'd also say another tip, which i actually found phenomenally useful, would genuinely be to look into, either through classes or just casually, linguistics. i only did a handful of linguistics courses but learning more about what makes certain sounds in our mouths and why helped, and still helps, me track my delivery when speaking. i do in fact regularly go back to the ipa chart and just listen thru + vocalise back the consonants in particular, generally before i have to give some presentation or other.
away from the unsolicited advice and back to iwtv though, (your anger-induced hyperverbality is a mood btw) yeah, assad zaman's stage experience lends so much to armand as a character, he's absolutely wonderful to watch. i'm unsure if he's aware of the fact that his physicality and diction tell on him to the utmost lololol and if it's a deliberate choice to blur stage and screen, or if it's simply how he approaches the role, but regardless of intent, it comes off so well.
