Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.
I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with such interesting, unique, and completely separate characters.
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
Roles make the actor.
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.