If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can relate to the character I'm playing.
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
If the characters are acting true to themselves, then that chemistry and suspense will flow.
I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to commit to a film and not have it released.
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.