A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.
From Colm Meaney
Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
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