People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.
I enjoy being characters rather than myself.
But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.
I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.