And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.
I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.