Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.
I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.
I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.
I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.
I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.
The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.
Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.