Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.
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The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.
At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.