It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
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You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.