Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
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I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.
It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're playing someone fictitious, there's myriad ways in. With a real person, there's boundaries, and that sometimes makes the work easier.
I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.
All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.
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