It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.
The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.
I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.
I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.
As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
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