Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.