act out

“Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw.”

He said he was acting out of "humanitarian" considerations.

As Bridges tells it, playing with a band allows him to act out his long-standing “Beatles fantasy,” and remains one of his most rewarding roles.

"They're disoriented, and most likely, most of them are having seizures, and so their senses are not all fully functional as they normally would and they're acting out of fear."

But prosecutors in the second trial cast doubt on those claims, arguing the brothers had acted out of greed and wanted to inherit their parents' wealth.