[GF] Autonomous acting number while doing other interactions

To specify, they don't stop painting, but do not progress with the painting, they just sing and dance at the easel, brush in hand.

Yes! This started happening to me recently, too!

It's not just painting. Cooking as well. First they break into autonomous acting practice at mirrors or with each other all the time, then when their acting skill is higher they break into autonomous musical numbers in the middle of painting or cooking and then the other Sims in the family stop to watch them. It's driving me insane! 😅 I thought it was just my game borked because I'm using a family I rescued from my previous save which had the "lots disappearing when traveling" bug, so I thought maybe the family was hosed, but I'm relieved to see I'm not alone!!! 

Repairing the game, clearing cache do nothing to stop this behavior.

I don't have any mods or CC and I have all the packs and this is a new save (just with a a previously used family and lot from a prior save.)

Exactly, same with cooking. The cooking just pauses then resumes when the song is done.

Here is a little video I made of it happening while cooking:

https://catherinechant.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/breaking-in-acting-while-cooking.avi

ETA (3 days later): It's also happening when they make drinks at the bar. My Sim stopped in the middle of making a drink to do her little song/dance and then resumed making the drink. 😅

Had this happen today while sim was cooking as well, so confirming above.

During most creative activities but mostly while cooking, my sims will start calling everyone over and performing a scene while cooking. Action almost immediately reappears once I delete. 

Hello all,

If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?

If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file. Instructions can be found here: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/information-how-to-send-user-files-to-the-sims-4-team/5048472

Thanks!

This has been driving me insane!! My sims take 4 hours to cook because they keep perfoming musical numbers. 

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this issue happens when your sim is in a dynasty with the Artistic value.

Could be a general issue as well, but my family is in an artistic dynasty and ALL they do is raise the acting skill. I've tried removing the skill but they practice acting with each other anyway. Hope they fix this ASAP.

My sim decided to autonomously paint a picture. While doing so, he also decided to autonomously give a dramatic monologue. While I appreciate the double skill-gaining effect, these don't seem like tasks that would be multi-tasking type tasks.