The World Motivation
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
“As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.”
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.
'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.
I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.
I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.
From the first audition on stage, I knew I loved acting.
The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.