I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.
The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.
The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.
I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.
I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.
I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
