I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job – and it’s my job to make it look real.
Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I’m sure.
There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the character. So as much as the script is born from the source material, there are certain limitations.
Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.
I remember going, “I’m really excited about this – I really want it to happen. It would be a wonderful opportunity.” But if something doesn’t happen, then it doesn’t happen. My mother and father sort of raised me to look at things that way.
My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there’s only so much that can be controlled.
The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.
I’m from a family of six men, so I’m bound to be physical.
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don’t want to go.
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, ‘Oh I choose this job,’ but most of the time we’re just taking the job we can get. We don’t just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that’s the one we’ll take because we’ve got to pay the rent.
I didn’t see a lot of comic books growing up.
I don’t think Americans look bad in spandex.
Not every job is a good job.
My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For ‘Immortals,’ it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.
I suppose that when I’m building a character, it’s usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up – that nurture side.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day.
It’s difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you’re looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
A lot of the stuff you do as an actor – or I do, because I can’t speak for everyone – is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it’s actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.
At boarding school there wasn’t much time for much of anything except education.