If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.
For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.
Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.