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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.
For me, what is more important is the challenge the character poses for me as an actor.
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.
My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.
Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.
All the characters play an important role. For me, as an actor, for my character to come out so beautifully, I would give all the credit to my co-actors, directors and writers.
It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
What a character wears and how it affects their mood and their movements has always been very important to me. A character's clothes, if they're truthful, can make audiences feel something.
Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.
No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story.
For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from the inside. So if I wear something that's heavy, it will affect my character. Is it very tight, and do I feel almost imprisoned, or is it very comfortable? It's the feeling of the costume that tells me where to go with the character.