Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.
I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.
There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'
For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.