Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.
I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.
I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes.
I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
People learn to lead because they care about something.
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
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