It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing. ↗
Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers. ↗
The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all. ↗