The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.
When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.