Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.
I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.
I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story.
I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.
'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.