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yes! even their improvised scenes, they are improvising as their CHARACTERS, they are not themselves the actors, it just means that they know their characters well enough that they can improvise certain scenes and be it be in character and acted well!
this is one of my pet peeves in fandom because it happens all the time with actors lmao when the director (or whoever) says 'oh this scene is partly improvised!' people are like 'oh they are the actors here then' and it's like noooooo it irks me hahaha
To me great improvisation is a mark of exceptional acting talent. It means you are so into character you don't need script to tell you what the character would do or say or what they're thinking in a particular situation. I'm thinking especially of something like Ohm in the bus stop scene in episode 3, and how he told Aof he was just wrong about how Pat subconsciously felt about Pran in that moment, and Ohm was right. You can only get to that level if you are IN your character. And two-person improv is even harder, because you both have to be in your characters, the chemistry has to be there, and you have to trust your scene partner that they're not going to go left and kill everything.
I think to get people to understand improv is hard...it's riffing, it's vibing, in music we'd call it 'jamming'. It's not 'we're just gonna be ourselves' it's 'we're just gonna be these characters in this situation and see where it takes us'. To do it well is a BIG acting skill. There are lots of phenomenal actors who simply can't do it well. It's one of the cornerstones of comedy and comedy is HARD. Yeah I think people don't appreciate the skill level it takes at all.