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Despite the added tension, the series is made with a dedication to keeping things from getting too sensational, too declamatory, too actorish.

In a letter to a colleague, the director wrote that his voice, “is neither patronizing, nor is it intimidating, nor is it pompous, overly dramatic or actorish. Despite this, it is interesting.”

“The voice is neither patronizing, nor is it intimidating, nor is it pompous, overly dramatic or actorish. Despite this, it is interesting.”

It’s a risky thing to give a performance that you know some people will dismiss as mannered or arch or artificial or, worst of all, actorish.

Marie examined the front-view and profile photographs of Smith: an arrogant face, tough, yet not entirely, for there was about it a peculiar refinement; the lips and nose seemed nicely made, and she thought the eyes, with their moist, dreamy expression, rather pretty—rather, in an actorish way, sensitive.