I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?
The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents, and we just go out and audition for them.
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
I always play the sweet girl next door.
There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.
An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.