Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies with him, and he would explain the story and characters to me.
For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.
I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.