'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.
Character is long-standing habit.
Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise.
I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.