Honestly giving the neutral review, Erica's acting is not suitable for Prerna's role, she downplay's her role and her dialogue delivery is poor, and i hardly see changes in her expressions for different scenes with different situation. Her all expressions are similar, same and specially it is more noticeable since the dialogue delivery is same/ poor for every scene.
Now before Erica fans can jump on me, i just want them to imagine how would Surbhi Jyoti or Surbhi Chanddha or Tina Datta OR Even Shrenu Parikh perform in this role.Their expressions and dialogue delivery would have been far more on point. They r more polished actresses. The same dialogue and same direction but they could give more from their side and could impact.
Its not about the characterization, the lead can be fearful, frustrated, weak, but she has to portray that, If u see Sriti Jha's acting, Sweta Tiwari's acting or Sakshi Tanwar's acting, Surbhi Jyoti, they can definitely portray meek, weak, fearful, frustrated character or current Prerna's character 10 times better than Erica. Main issue is she is not impacting because of her acting and i am being totally neutral, its not only about looks, her looks is suitable. her dialogue delivery is very weak, her expressions for surprise, shocked, frustrated every scenes are same. so overall when she comes on screen, somehow the screen presence or acting does not work or audience cannot connect.
Even if they give Erica sassy lines she can hardly convince because she does not have that attitude or aura or cannot act if i say straightforward.
Erica needs to do lot of home work. Only look & height wise she is matching Prerna's role. Acting needs a lot of improvement from her side.
Parth is on point on getting Anurag's role, i would say he is doing better than Cezanne Khan. He was on point and KSG could not overpower parth with his creen presence. Because his acting was good. it had impact.
Somebody was saying that KSG acting was bad, but i am seeing he has tremendous screen presence. and his acting is better than Erica's.
Now Actors can improvise as well. If Erica needs to improvise she can, why doesnt she do it, I can see Parth is giving his 100% but i cannot say Erica is giving 100% and serious.
Now i know when Shashank Vyas said in one interview, that some actors take the cake without working hard. Erica got such great opportunity but she is not giving her effort at all. Because as audience i am not seeing her effort. She needs to do a lot of hard work, she needs to be serious, Prerna is a good role if u can give from ur side as an actress.
Erica somehow not able to make that impact. The show is running mostly on hype and season 1 tag and on male leads shoulder when it should mainly run around female lead's shoulder which for KZK1 it was on Sweta's shoulder, Kahani Ghar Ghar ki ran on Sakshi's shoulder, come on this is an iconic show of Ekta, Erica needs to be serious and learn to do better.
Bingo ! Thx for spelling it out ...i took a lot of time to figure out why i cant see the chemistry which people go gaga over ..then i noticed how shubhavi , pooja and the girl playing shivani also acted in diff scenes , and other actors which r mentioned , they just ace any kind of role ..be it jennifer or surbhi or sriti or the girl playing preeta, shivangi joshi..i find ericas expression same in every scene for every emotion . Imo parth totally underplayed his character during komos time and i hated him there..that was his lowest low ..but after komo he has been his usual self..i find erica very beautiful but her characterization and acting both disappoint. Parth improvises as an actor , he knows how to speak his lines acc to the situation but erica ..something which doesnt sit well..sorry, this is not bashing or criticizing just for the heck for it .