If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always look at people and think how I would cast them.
I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.
You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.