Case study  Actor Tom Hiddleston reveals how he conveys emotion
When I'm given a role, the first thing I do is read the play
over and over again. I scour the script and write down
everything the character says about himself and everything that
everyone else says about him. I immerse myself in my character
and imagine what it might be like to be that person.  When I
played Cassio in Othello I imagined what it would be like to be
a lieutenant in the Venetian navy in 1604. I sat down with Ewan
McGregor and Chiwetel Ejiofor and together we decided that
Othello, Iago and Cassio had soldiery in their bones.  I took
from the script that Cassio was talented and ambitious, with no
emotional or physical guard - and that's how I played the part.
For me, acting is about recreating the circumstances that would
make me feel how my character is feeling. In the dressing room,
I practise recreating those circumstances in my head and I try
to not get in the way of myself. For example, in act two of
Othello, when Cassio is ma