No matter how you travel, it’s still you going. People work harder when conditions are worse. An actor wants to get up every day and they can’t think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it’s real.
I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me. It’s not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn’t fool anybody. There’s nothing glamorous about it at all. This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
I now, more and more, appreciate when I’m in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I’m wildly grateful and appreciative. I’m a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching. The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.
I had a brother who died early on – he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn’t expect that. That was utterly shocking. Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It’s very contemporary. The universe is so big, there’s so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that’s alive.
I’m always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it’s a little like lessons at school. I, uh, don’t think I’m, y’know, so different than your average, y’know, average. I think we’re dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn’t get all that much attention on television.
