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Actors don't like to play coma. They feel it limits their range.
— Soapdish ‧ 1991
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What it means
Our interpretation.
A soap-opera joke about acting. Playing a coma means lying still with nothing to do, so the speaker claims actors avoid it because it restricts their range. The humor is treating a motionless role as a genuine career limitation.
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