You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.
I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and at the same time find something that, for me, as an actor, is interesting and challenging.
For myself, anyway, I think that recurring has been such a gift, because I've been able to work on a lot of shows that I've really had a lot of respect for before I went in, shows like 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Nip/Tuck,' for example.
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.
I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.
There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.
The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.