By some sweet mystery, their son, Campbell Scott, turned out an uncommonly subtle and delicate actor.
So they came up with the concept of a stunt double for the 'hero' animatronic figures that could take their place within a show or scene to perform more aggressive maneuvering, much in the same way a double replaces a valuable and delicate actor in a dangerous scene.
Women are intoxicated by the thin, delicate-featured actor who is, in his own words, "on the cusp of manhood" ― despite a Hollywood landscape still studded with mountainous biceps and rocky six-packs.
What Mr. Crowe's films also share is his delicate touch with actors.
Walsh-Peelo is an actor with a delicate, intelligent, open face.
Some speculated the "Hunger Games" director would be forced to resort to a combination of CGI and stand-ins to insert Hoffman into that and other scenes he had not finished, a delicate prospect with any departed actor but particularly so in the case of an Oscar winner and four-time nominee who was often heralded as the finest actor of his generation.
Under the delicate direction of Sam Gold, the actors portraying these fumbling, amiable amateurs participating in these aimless exercises are in fact giving a demonstration of stage acting at its most subtle and rewarding.
There are so many things to keep interest alive - gaining flow and precision with the words, trying different nuances with the character, assimilating audience reaction over successive performances, not to mention handling props, scenery and the delicate egos of your fellow actors.
His earliest work includes woodblock prints in a refined, delicate style of beauties and actors.
Careful work of pro-reformists with the MUI and progressive religious groups, together with consolidating the support of the popular media, had the potential to turn public and Parliamentary opinion in the Bill's favour providing that the spectrum of actors and their delicate balance could be effectively managed, and in particular that the influence of hard-line religious leaders could be curbed.
All this tells you something, as does Ms. Knightley and Mr. Garfield's droopy, loose-limbed physicality, which has none of the coiled energy of youth and serves the story, even if neither actor can manage its delicate passages.
