Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.
You’ve got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
I’m not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
It’s the same kind of preparation you do for something like this you do for anything. It doesn’t matter if it’s a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.