What guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
ADRIEN BRODYI would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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I always had an actor within me.
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Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.
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So that isn’t the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment.
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Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.
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Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.
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I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.
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Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.
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Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.
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I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.
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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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And then, it’s out of your control.
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It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense.
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So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.
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It’s something that I don’t want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don’t feel like being noticed.
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My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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I really had a blast.
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Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it.
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So far, it’s an interesting ride, and I’m curious to see what I can find next.
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And that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.
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I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
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I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.
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I take a lot less for granted.
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War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,
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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
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