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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Dad
Acting
Bugs
Caught
Bug
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
New York
Shakespeare
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The best villains are the nicest guys in person.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Guy
Persons
Villain
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I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
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Love Play Would
Hamlet
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Goal
Real
Theater
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Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.
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Monsters
Vulnerability
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Monsters
Vulnerability
Also
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Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.
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Always Moving
Littles
Moving
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As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.
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Actors
Looks
People
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What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
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Actors
Persons
Trying
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.
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Baseball
Growing Up
School
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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Base
Exist
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Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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Done
Would Be
Writing
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You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
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Acting
Cameras
Stuff
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Boundaries
Pushing
Unbroken
Underestimate
Actual
Biggest Things
Capabilities
Further
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I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.
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Clique
Confused
School Everyone High School
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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Worried
Defensive
Guard
Runner
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Cold
Long Term
Soap
Soap Operas
Spots
Graduated
Guest
Operas
Pilot
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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Every Night
Film And Television
Fulfilling
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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Juilliard
Oh Yeah
Responsive
Something People
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I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.
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Rejection
Professionally
So Much Time
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Different
Let It Go
Mercy
Self Worth
Turns
Good Better Your
Editor
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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Structure
Actions
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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Arrested
Cards
House Of Cards
Late
Orange
Wire
Arrested Development
Detective
True Detective
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We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."
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Jobs
Children
Sweet
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Generous
Groundwork
Tone
Sets
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, "God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything." And then you see the close-up and it's so nuanced and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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Acting
Film
Sometimes
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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Great Film
Close-Up
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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Battle
Constant
Business Money Great
Great Thing
Uphill
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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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Fascinated
Relate
Empathize
Macbeth
Villains
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Angelina Jolie
Surprisingly
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Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.
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Amusement
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
Freak
Murphy
Objectification
Pulse
Culture People Way
Culture People Entertainment
Entertain
Ryan
Tries
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You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.
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Running
Children
Mother
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Camps
Critique
Film Actors
Soap
Soap Operas
Myself Day People
Boot
Scenes
Shoot
Objective
Operas
Skill
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A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
Finn Wittrock / Actor
Casting
Salesman
Unbroken
Chain
Led
Reaction
Trace
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You want to give the director what they want, and you don't always know exactly how it goes, so you want to try it a few different ways. You have to be flexible; you have to be in collaboration with the director; you have to be versatile. But you also want to be protective of what you really believe in and how you feel it should be portrayed.
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Believe
Giving
Trying
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