One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.
At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.
Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.
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