Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't have a lot of style icons. There are not a lot of people today who I look to.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.
What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
It's a wonderful thing to have a character with tons of attributes.
When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.