After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.
There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this sort of greasy fallen-angel character who was voyeuristic and sleazy and really unpleasant. It was a great role, but I didn't especially enjoy living with this awful man for the length of time it took to make the movie.
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever. I was being judged in ways that left me nowhere to go. You have to be patient.
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.
Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.
I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.