I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
