At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.
From Ben Mendelsohn
If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.
I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.
'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.
Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.
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