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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
You can escape into a character.
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.
I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.
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