I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.
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It can be tough as a jobbing actor.
We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.
All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am.
Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.
Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.
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