My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.
But theatre is always a difficult experience.
I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.