I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.
I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.
Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.