You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor, it won't be obvious in two hours, but you'll begin to see his weaknesses over four or five days.
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My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.
As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.
The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.
I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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