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If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.