It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.
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I manage to hide in my movies.
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.
When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.
To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.
And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.
I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.
As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.