"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

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"My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it."

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"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."

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