It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
There is a large element of me in every role I do.
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
