This will be brief but is applicable to actors and acting and directing.
If it's not working... try something else!
Part of what is so amazing and wonderful about theatre and performance is the idea that there are so many possible ideas. Add to those ideas so many possible performers and possible audiences and we've got something that is quite amazing in terms of the number of possibilities. I'm going to go with limitless.
Is the scene sad? Make it funny.
Is the character upset? Make them happy.
Do whatever it is you need to do in order to continue down the path of learning & trying rather than stagnating. Don't be an artistic cesspool.
If being wrong is what you're trying to avoid then you can only be wrong! You've got to exhaust possibilities before you can find the best ones.
Don't stagnate.
Now go do something productive.
[Disclaimer: This probably borrowed or modified from some famous person who taught someone who then taught someone who wrote a book and then someone read the book and then taught me and now I'm teaching it. This is, however, what I actually think.]
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