I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.
Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.
It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.
I was not expecting Linda Hamilton to be there auditioning with me. I never would've imagined that. I didn't recognize her. We went into a room with four people, and the scene was really emotional. She held my hand and hugged me. She was so loving.
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.
I saw Gosling just kill it in 'Blue Valentine.' I thought he was just amazing at that, and I wouldn't mind maybe doing something like that.
In 'Talvar', my character loses his daughter and it was quite an intense role. I had to concentrate and I would request all the unit members to stay silent before the take.
