I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.
Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.