China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
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