Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.
As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.