Okay we all know his acting is amazing but I wanted to talk about something that he did in today’s stream: saving face.
In theatre, one of the key things you’re taught is that if something goes wrong in-show, you roll with it. If you forget your lines, improvise as best you can and sneak a glance to the prompter. If something goes wrong on set, work with it or around it. And Ranboo did that perfectly today.
When the Creeper blew up part of the egg, which was clearly an accident, Ranboo took it completely in stride, barely breaking character for a second (“whoops! That’s not good”) before immediately both fixing the mistake (and the egg) and incorporating it into his act (“why am I fixing it? Why do I have to fix it?”), thus actually making the scene even more than it would have been.
This isn’t to say laughing at mistakes is bad. In the Dream SMP, there have been some amazing and hilarious moments from script-breaks (the clip of Dream accidentally blowing himself up during Tommy’s exile has me in stitches every time I watch it). Mistakes add to the fun. And I was impressed with Ranboo’s quick thinking and covering in that scene. Hats off to you, sir.
(Quotes paraphrased from the best of my memory, it’s late and I can’t be bothered to check the stream for exact wording)
