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  • If there's source material, read it,

  • especially if it's a book.

  • Read a book, because writers tend

  • to give you vital info about who the character is, where

  • he came from, what he does.

  • Sometimes they even try and explain

  • why he's doing it, why he's doing a particular thing.

  • And after you've done that, reread the story again

  • to get the story in your mind.

  • And after you've read that, figure out

  • how you feel about that character,

  • and why he's doing those things that he's

  • doing inside that script.

  • And once you think you know why that character is

  • doing those things, then you figure out OK,

  • where'd he come from?

  • Who is he?

  • How old is he?

  • Does he feel that way about this character

  • because he has a brother or sister that is that way?

  • Who are his parents?

  • What's his educational background?

  • Does he have a military background?

  • Did he go into the army?

  • Has he ever been in jail?

  • Is he out of jail?

  • How educated is he?

  • Is he smart, sort of smart, very smart?

  • It's not there.

  • And sometimes, you will never have

  • to explain that to an audience, or to the other cast members.

  • But it's important to you as a person,

  • because all those kinds of things

  • determine how you feel about people,

  • how you look at them, how you interpret their actions,

  • what your prejudices are toward those people

  • in a particular way.

  • Are they smarter than me?

  • Do I like that?

  • Do I not like that?

  • Is he dumber than me?

  • Am I going to manipulate him because of it?

  • And it's stuff that an audience might--

  • or they probably won't, ever know.

  • But for you as the actor, when you're

  • interacting with that character that you

  • think you're smarter than, it interprets

  • how you approach that character, and how

  • you accept what they say to you, or what you think of it,

  • or what you're trying to do.

  • And all those things are dictated by what kind of person

  • I am.

  • And if there's no source material

  • to tell me what kind of person I am, then it's incumbent upon me

  • to create a human being that's inside that story, that

  • has a full life, that feels a certain way about things,

  • because this happened to him, that happened to him,

  • this didn't happen to him.

  • He didn't have this advantage growing up,

  • or he had this advantage.

  • Or he had a woman who left him, so he can't relate to women,

  • because he thinks women are all whatever,

  • and he just cannot deal with them,

  • or he doesn't understand the female psyche.

  • Or his mom did something to him, so he can't handle family life.

  • And he doesn't know how to be a father, because he didn't have

  • a father, or the father he had, had no idea how to treat him,

  • or he watched him treat his mother a certain way,

  • or didn't do this.

  • All kinds of things that you can make up about that person,

  • but what you need is a whole person.

  • Which is something Lloyd Richards imposed upon me,

  • Douglas Turner Ward imposed upon me,

  • that says whenever you're on stage,

  • you're coming from somewhere, and you're

  • going somewhere when you leave.

  • And do you want people to go with you when you go?

  • So when you show up in there, you--

  • boom, you hit that moment.

  • And when you leave, everybody is like, "Well, [BLEEP] I

  • wanna go with him.

  • Where is he going?

  • That was, uh, he looks like he has something on his mind."

  • And then I had another actor tell me once,

  • he's like, "Look, every time a camera passes you

  • when you're on set, always look like there's

  • something on your mind.

  • Don't be standing there waiting on your line."

  • You know, thinking about something, either

  • what that character just said, or how

  • you feel about the thing that character said.

  • Or even if you thinking about "I need to get out of here.

  • I'm sick of being here," people need to see that on your face,

  • not just--

  • unless you're playing an idiot.

If there's source material, read it,

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