I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.
When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.
When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.