To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.
Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.
Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.
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.
Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.