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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00:00It's again, it's almost like it's a quieter glasses, so you're 100% right.
00:04I was one quieter person.
00:06I had to physically, like, train myself out of the habits that I had formed playing David
00:11Rose on Schitt's Creek.
00:14He was a completely I mean, Mark in this movie is so still and so reserved and so avoidant
00:20coming from 80 episodes of a television show where no reaction was too small.
00:27It was like it was almost like I had to physically be aware of how little I had to do and how
00:35still I had to be in order to be this person and how hard that was at times to kind of
00:42rid yourself of the habits that are formed of playing a character that is so elastic
00:47and so larger than life.
00:50Real quick, I want to follow up on that, because what you just said reminds me of the line
00:54in the film about muscle memory, because there's that beautiful concept for people
00:59who haven't seen it where you talk about this idea of when you lose somebody, your brain's
01:03not used to the concept of not wanting to love them in that moment.
01:07Yeah.
01:08So like, could you compare that at all to leaving Schitt's Creek and kind of like the
01:12muscle memory of that character and kind of like finding the muscle memory of a new character?
01:16For sure.
01:17As an actor.
01:18Yeah.
01:19I mean, you know, it's it's a rare thing to be able to play a character for as long as
01:23I did and still be excited by them and continue to add to them.
01:28And by the end, I mean, you know, the character of David Rose, when we found him in the pilot
01:33episode is so different than where we where we find him at the end.
01:37He's way more comfortable in his skin.
01:39But as a result, the performance got bigger and more reactive.
01:45And so, yeah, it's like it's in me.
01:47It's physically kind of programmed in me to to to to do the wrong thing as an actor.
01:53It's one of those rare occurrences where it's like, can we try that?
01:58But like, really go bigger now, you know, in drama, you know, I'm acting opposite Ruth
02:04Negga and Himesh Patel.
02:06Like I can't be doing what I've done around like wonderfully subtle, gorgeous film actors.
02:16It's a very different craft.
02:18So I think also being with them, you know, when you're around unbelievable talent like
02:25like those two, it only forces you to to keep up, really, and to improve and to observe
02:33and to, you know, to strive to kind of, you know, not embarrass yourself.