Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.
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Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.
My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!
I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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