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How actors cry on cue without feeling sad

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Why rely on genuine emotional depth when you can just chemically irritate someone's corneas? When a performer simply cannot summon the required sadness, makeup artists use a lipstick-sized tube of menthol crystal. Blowing these vapors directly into their face triggers an immediate, involuntary biological weeping response that looks exactly like profound grief.

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