Preparing to Find Real Emotion, Using Emotional Recall

During rehearsing for my scene with Ruby Tim said that I didn't have the correct and real emotion for the scene. In hindsight I entirely agreed with this, because I was acting emotion rather than feeling something, which I worked on during that day. At my lunch I thought about how to improve my character using the Stanislavskian techniques we had learnt. I focused on emotional recall, because I felt that would work. Tim told me that Torvald genuinely believes Nora has ruined his life, so I needed to find a time when I believed someone had ruined my life and I did. I used a recent example (which I can't go into in detail) where someone named James Paice did, as far as I believed, ruined my life. So in working on the scene I pictured James in front of me and before I said each line I added James e.g.'James you have ruined my happiness, James you have ruined my future' and I think for me that brought out real emotion for me because during rehearsing for the scene I felt very angry and even started crying. Tim also told me I needed to connect with Ruby, I felt I had, but I did feel that I hadn't connected with Ruby in way that was necessary for the scene. Because I have known, and worked with, Ruby and her family for years I must admit I found it hard to be angry at her, though not necessarily to connect with her.