It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.
It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.
Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.
Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.
I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.
It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.
How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.