The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
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Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.
I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.
I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.
A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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