Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.
When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.
For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.
When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.
The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
I get so excited about reading a new script.
What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
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