To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.
I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.