You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.
What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.
I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away.
I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.
Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.