When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Respect the burden.
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.
You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.
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