When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
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The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.
Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.
Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.
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