Character/Actor.

Thoughts on the art of acting, with a focus on Michaela Coel in "I May Destroy You," Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri in "The Bear" and LaKieth Stanfield in "The Changeling."

This is not a column about the “best actors of 2023” or “the best actors on television and film from the last decade” or some such list. It’s more granular. It’s about feel. It’s about what works (and sometimes what doesn’t) in a television series (or movie) and how that shapes our overall impression of a series or film.

There’s such a wide range of acti…