Possible Clues:

• Is this how to turn e-reader perhaps into theatrical feeling in film?
• Overdo, onstage
• Act the wrong way?
• Serve up some ham?
• Overdo a scene, say
• Show heightened feelings
• Ham it up as Hamlet
• Tread the boards heavily
• Do a part poorly
• Be Jim Carrey when you should be George Clooney