Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
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I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.
Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.
I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
With every film, we form a small little world for a period of time. Everybody is close, and then one fine day everything is over. That can throw you off. So you have to learn to take things in your stride and not get too emotional about people or situations.
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!
I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.
I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.
You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.