break character
verb1
Acting, Broadcasting, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater To fail to act as a certain character; to be or act out of character.
- Once Lynne and I realized that Jim was going to approach the role of Kaufman in a “method acting,” Kaufmanesque kind of way—i.e., he would become Andy or Tony Clifton for the entire shoot, never breaking character […]2014, Bob Zmuda, Lynne Margulies, Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 43:
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