To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
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There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?
When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining.
I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.
I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.
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