Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.
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I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.
I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.
In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
I love to play any character that isn't close to my personality.
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.
I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.
I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.
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