When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
When I sit down to write a scene, I have a plan in mind, and I'm thrilled when a character disregards my goals and takes the story to a place I hadn't imagined.
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
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