As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
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You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.
I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.
As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.
When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
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.
It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.