I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.
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I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.
None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.
You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.
As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.
If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.
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