Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
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You can escape into a character.
When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.
To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.