Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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