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I think it's important to change and not be associated with your character too much.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.