James McAvoy is not an action star.
Categorisation of actors has become outdated now.
I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.
I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.
The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.
I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.
People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists - there are a lot of actors that are hired for very specific reasons that are shallow and have to do with sexual currency and what the industry thinks sells. Real actors are artists, they're expressionists.
