When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.
As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.
As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.
I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.
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