Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
I think when I started acting, the whole time I was working towards one day coming to America. Hollywood, in particular, is seen to be the center of this industry, and I was just waiting for the right time to come.
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
I know that people get cast based on how they look in Hollywood.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.
You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.