When I don't know what to do with a character, that's when I say yes to it. When it's far away from the way I am, the way I feel or the way I think, that's when it's more attractive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.
I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.
For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.