There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.
You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!
When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.
I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.