With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
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When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it.
With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television disconnected me. When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.
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