I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
RACHEL MCADAMSI’ve had heartbreaking auditions where they don’t even look at you. You’re out before you’re in.
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I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.
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You know when you find a great dress, you’ve gotta hold on to it.
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I loved superhero stuff.So comfortable, I got to wear like orthopedic running shoes every day.
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I want my own cloak. I mean, that’s also up in the air that you know – . I haven’t really thought about it because it’s you know, really is sort of to be determined. I think the success of the film [Doctor Strange] determines that.
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Would I rather be dental floss or a toothbrush? is that a question? Um, I would actually rather be floss, I think, if I was using me. Because I don’t really floss enough.
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A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I’ve been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it’s hard with a kiss.
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I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on – , from my mom a bit.
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There’s no one who’s ever been significantly in my life for whom I don’t have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.
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A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That’s why the scenery is so flat.
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I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I’ve since educated myself.
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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
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I think love is the through line and it’s universal and it doesn’t matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that’s something we all connect to. That’s the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
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I’ve had heartbreaking auditions where they don’t even look at you. You’re out before you’re in.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I’m drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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