interiority

There’s a habit of claiming that a portrait means to “capture an essence” or “reveal interiority” concealed within the subject, but I’m skeptical of such assertions.

“Part of what people find interesting about spies, particularly spies in cinema, is their interiority,” Blanchett says.

Best’s performance is a peerless work of interiority.

Repeatedly, her figures stoop, crouch, look down or away, resulting in a concentrated bodily sense of intense interiority.

It’s also an example of the plot’s relative shallowness and scripts more concerned with verbal blood sport than teasing out its characters’ interiority.