There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.
I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
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 try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
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