Grounding all fiction in honesty.

It is easy to receive a script and judge it. No doubt, there is a lot of "bad" writing out there. If it is THAT BAD - you have a choice - don't take it. No one is putting a gun to your head. 
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I think many things about our first instincts can be very accurate and be trusted. However, it is also very easy to gloss over a new piece of writing with criticisms and judgement. However, what possibilities can we find if we change our attitude? - What if we tell ourselves - there are no bad scripts, only bad actors? What if we enter into the challenges and possibilities instead of playing the blame-game of the ego? What possibilities could we find? 

Say we find a script very "ridiculous" or "out of this world" - you say "no one would ever do such a thing", well, what if somebody, somewhere, sometime did? what if they were desperate enough?
Then our job as the actor is to make our performance BELIEVABLE regardless of the structure given to us by the writer. Our job is to ground our characters in believable, HONEST realities - to maintain/ guard the integrity and honesty of the character while working within the given circumstances.

An actor's honesty can make "ridiculous" writing believable, or even more powerful than if it wasn't that "ridiculous". As my teacher Adam Marple always says, "could be elephant fall from the sky" - ridiculous extremes are fertile soil for arresting theatre.

Perhaps criticising the writing is just our way of salvaging our actor egos when we get stuck with new material.

So whose job is it? I choose to day "it's my job!" because when I take ownership of it - I choose possibility and discovery.