I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.
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For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.
When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
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