There’s no real downside to creating an iconic television character. For one thing, you have job security. Which then comes with a lifetime of residual pay. Sure, you can get typecast as a certain brand of character. But because everything in Hollywood is circular, it just means you’ll end up playing that character again in the eventual reboot/reimagining that makes its way to a streaming service. Right, Full House cast?
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00:00 It's again, it's almost like it's a quieter glasses.
00:03 So you're 100 percent right.
00:04 I was wondering why you're a person.
00:06 I had to physically like train myself out of the habits that I had formed playing David
00:11 Rose on Schitt's Creek.
00:14 He was a completely I mean, Mark in this movie is so still and so reserved and so avoidant
00:20 coming from 80 episodes of a television show where no reaction was too small.
00:27 It was like it was almost like I had to physically be aware of how little I had to do and how
00:35 still I had to be in order to be this person and how hard that was at times to kind of
00:42 rid yourself of the habits that are formed of playing a character that is so elastic
00:47 and so larger than life.
00:51 Real quick, I want to follow up on that, because what you just said reminds me of the line
00:54 in the film about muscle memory, because there's that beautiful concept for people who haven't
00:59 seen it, where you talk about this idea of when you lose somebody, your brain's not used
01:03 to the concept of not wanting to love them in that moment.
01:07 Yeah.
01:08 And so like, could you compare that at all to leaving Schitt's Creek and kind of like
01:12 the muscle memory of that character and kind of like finding the muscle memory of a new
01:16 character?
01:17 For sure.
01:18 As an actor.
01:19 Yeah.
01:20 Yeah.
01:21 You know, it's it's a rare thing to be able to play a character for as long as I did and
01:23 still be excited by them and continue to add to them.
01:28 And by the end, I mean, you know, the character of David Rose, when we found him in the pilot
01:33 episode is so different than where we where we find him at the end.
01:37 He's way more comfortable in his skin.
01:39 But as a result, the performance got bigger and more reactive.
01:45 And so, yeah, it's like it's in me.
01:47 It's physically kind of programmed in me to to to to do the wrong thing as an actor.
01:53 You know what I mean?
01:54 Like, it's one of those rare occurrences where it's like, can we try that?
01:58 But like, really go bigger now.
02:00 You know, in drama, you know, I'm acting opposite Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel.
02:06 Like I can't be doing what I've done around like wonderfully subtle, gorgeous film actors.
02:16 It's a very different craft.
02:18 So I think also being with them, you know, when you're around unbelievable talent like
02:25 like those two, it only forces you to to keep up, really, and to improve and to observe
02:33 and to, you know, to strive to kind of, you know, not embarrass yourself.
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