Unlike theater actors, who develop characters for repeat performances, film actors lack continuity, forcing them to come to all scenes (sometimes shot in reverse of the order in which they ultimately appear) with a fully developed character already.”Since film captures even the smallest gesture and magnifies it…, cinema demands a less flamboyant and stylized bodily performance from the actor than does the theater.” “The performance of emotion is the most difficult aspect of film acting to master: …the film actor must rely on subtle facial ticks, quivers, and tiny lifts of the eyebrow to create a believable character.” Some theatre stars “…have made the theater-to-cinema transition quite successfully (Laurence Olivier, Glenn Close, and Julie Andrews, for instance), others have not…”