A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.
You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.
I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.
For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.
Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.