Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
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Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.
I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.
When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.