It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.
I think it's important to change and not be associated with your character too much.
I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
Every performance is different because I'm different; my mood is different.
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.