Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.
I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
I want to play a character with grey shades.
I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.
I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.
No opposing quotes found.