C. hope it helps and the rest nothing
It means it's a 3 beat rest not matter what. You always have to pay attention to the time signature.
The person who maintained that the actor should be coldly unemotional was Denis Diderot.
Denis Diderot was a French critic, philosopher, and writer, and he wrote in his "Paradox of the Actor" what a perfect actor would behave like. In his opinion, no emotions should be present when that person acts, but rather the actor should show rational intelligence and aesthetic judgment.