I watched that actor's apology video frame by frame and caught him reading off a teleprompter the whole time.

I was analyzing his apology for the charity scandal, and I noticed his eyes kept shifting to the same spot just above the camera for the full 7 minutes, so how can it be sincere if he's not even looking at us?

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beth1477d ago

Yeah, the eye shift thing is a dead giveaway. I had to coach a guy through a similar mess once, and the first thing I told him was to ditch the teleprompter. Reading word for word just makes you look like a robot reading a legal document. If you really mean it, you should know the main points well enough to look right at the camera and talk to people.

theajohnson7d ago

My gut says a real apology doesn't need a script. I just look for someone speaking from the heart, even if they stumble a bit.

abby_martinez7d ago

That whole thing reminds me of a guy I knew who got caught lying about where he was. He tried to read this long, fancy apology his friend wrote for him. It sounded like a robot, just like theajohnson said. We all knew it was fake because he kept looking at his phone to check the script.

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