I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.
I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.
I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.
The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.
I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination.
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.