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Honestly, I don't think those examples belong anywhere. Being friends with one's coworkers is very common; merely being an actor doesn't make it notable. I don't see the need for a platonic version of Romance on the Set.
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We have Friendship on the Set.
The issue with those examples is that Becoming the Mask means that someone initiates a deception only to be drawn into the lie they have created. Philosophically Becoming the Mask and Method Acting are related, but one is a narrative trope and the other is a form of acting. For a real-life example to work it has to resemble the narrative trope aspect and not just be vaguely similar. "We were pretending to be best friends and BECAME best friends" just means given proximity the two of them always had the chance to be friends, it doesn't mean the nature of their characters bled into their real personalities.
A hypothetical Real Life example would be that an actor was timid and lacked confidence but gets a role as an assertive, confident martial arts. The actor then credits the training and the role with helping them gain a passion for martial arts and is now much more confident.
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OK, thanks for bringing up Friendship on the Set; that's what I was looking for. I already purged the method acting examples for ones that were actually closer to the trope definition on the previous cleanup thread; I just left the friendship ones briefly because I wasn't sure where to put them.
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This came up during the cleanup of Becoming the Mask's Real Life page, and I'd like more input. I'm pretty sure these examples aren't Becoming the Mask, but I'm not sure what trope they go on.
So, from what I can tell from the descriptions and examples, Becoming the Mask is distinct from Lost in Character for 2 reasons: one, the person who gets lost in character in LIC is a professional actor playing a fictional role, and two, everybody including the actor knows the role is fictional, whereas Becoming the Mask covers various forms of cons and masquerades where the person wearing the metaphorical mask knows it's fake, but those they interact with don't and once they start believing it, so does the mask-wearer.
Given that, I'm pretty confident that these examples from the Real Life page aren't proper Becoming the Mask examples, since they concern professional actors who played fictional characters with given relationships becoming friends / romantic partners in real life. However, I don't think they belong on Lost in Character either because they're not taking on their characters' personality traits, just the dynamic. What trope would these belong on? I was thinking the closest would be Romantic Fake–Real Turn, but I'm not sure if it's flexible enough to cover the platonic examples. Would it be worth TLP'ing a new trivia item about actors who played friends becoming friends in real life for this concept?
Edited by NonexistentYeets on Aug 12th 2023 at 11:56:55 AM
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