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Between actors, I mean. I know the technical definition, but that's useless to me. How does it work for the audience? How do you define it? How do you spot it? What makes you notice it? What indicates it? How do you know when it's there and how do you know when it's not there? Can you provide me with any examples?

(I'm on the spectrum and I have a feeling that's why I have a hard time with these kinds of things. I need explanations and examples to understand.)

A relationship that seems genuine, not acted. And a lot of it is in the eye of the beholder. It might be easier for you to closely examine the actors that you think have the most chemistry.

Edited 2013-03-10 21:07 (UTC)

Fuck if I know.

It's sort of hard to explain? Like, if you can tell the difference between when something seems natural versus when something seems stilted or rehearsed, you can generally tell when two actors naturally seem to get along well, as opposed to their interactions feeling no deeper than the script they're given. But if you have a hard time noticing the difference, I think it's going to be difficult to notice "chemistry," too. (But at the same time, I don't think it's necessary to enjoy things, either - my partner just realized that he has no idea what people actually mean when they say that, either, and he's a huge fan of all kinds of media and whatnot, so there's that.)

watch Robert Downey Jr interact with any of his costars and you've got it honestly.

or not, because i really disagree.

It's magic. Some people have it, some people don't. It's really really hard to explain if you don't see it in action yourself.

Personally, I think really good chemistry often comes from the actors being close in RL too -- the fact that they enjoy each other's company and have fun together just shines true. The best example of this that I can think of is Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

Hmm. Maybe think of it like this, are there people you meet that you just immediately seem to get along with? And then other people you meet that just nothing comes, it's just a meeting. Chemistry is what you have when you just seem to magically get along really well and make really great friends. With actors it's usually because the actors are friends in real life, or their acting/characters just seem to feed off each other and create that type of chemistry/bonding/friendship.

It's hard to explain.

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight.
Robert Redford and Paul Newman in whatever (either in a friend/partner sort of way or not).
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally.

Really, it's there any time you really buy a relationship, not just because the narrative tells you one exists, but because you see it or "feel" it while following the story.

you can't explain it.

what might be chemistry for one person is utterly forced for another. it has a lot to do with our frame of reference, which is influence by the culture we grew up in, the social norms of that culture etc. So for example, if you come from a culture that has small personal bubbles/in which people readily touch each other, seeing a pair on TV do that could come across to chemistry to you (cause that is how you interact with your friends/significant others/family). but on the flip side if you come from a culture that has a far bigger personal bubble with little personal touching in public, such displays on tv might come across as really fake and overselling it cause it is not something that you are used to.

What is the technical definition? Just curious.

It's kind of hard to explain, but I think what the others are saying fits. When a relationship between two characters seems more real/believable opposed to when you can tell it's just people reading lines. And yeah, I think when the actors are good friends/get along really well in real life people are more likely to think they have chemistry onscreen, at least for the most part. (I know there have been instances of actors who people think have really great onscreen chemistry not getting along at all in real life.)

And, this isn't really an explanation, but for me personally, when I see a lot of chemistry between two actors/characters, I usually find myself thinking that I wouldn't mind what kind of storyline they were put in, I could watch the two of them in a room for an hour just talking and interacting with each other and I would find it really interesting.

It best explained when two or more actor' interactions transcend the writing and directing and kind of just sync and feed into each other in such a way that makes them grab you harder than their characters' relationship would if they were played by other actors.

I'm thinking Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow, or David Tennant and Catherine Tate, or or Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh, just to throw out a range of different works.

I look at it as when two actors are in sync with each other and seem to be just as good friends/lovers/enemies in real life as they are on the screen.

As an example, do you watch MASH? Because there is a lot of scenes with Hawkeye and Trappers interactions, a lot of the time they seem to be moving as one, and not all of it can be the Directors directions.

I tried to find a youtube clip representing what I meant, but it was pretty impossible, here is a fanvid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTiLAMDl-A0 just ignore the song and so on and see how the two actors seem to be in sync? That is what is in my mind chemistry between actors. Then again I could be wrong?

~~I'm not good with emotions and stuff~~

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