It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.
I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.'
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.
That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.
It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.
In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.