When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.
When you're doing a one-man play, you maybe rehearse for a month, and then you're just doing it an hour or two a night.
When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.
It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
You play like you practice and practice how you play.
I have to learn the plays before I can worry about getting passes thrown to me.
It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.
I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.