A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.
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Fight scenes are very physical for me. Sometimes I require my own body to move through them before I can tell where a character's likely to feel it.
When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.
At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.
I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.
I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.
It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.
What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.
I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.