It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.
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 think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.
It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.
It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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