In school productions, I was always villager No. 7. I was never at the front of the stage dancing and never had any lines.
I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
I don't want to do a film where I have a ten minute role.
I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.
I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
I've always considered myself an ensemble girl, meaning I was always cast in the ensemble.
I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking.
I get cast a lot as the best friend or the assistant.
If you are visible in the whole film, but there is no depth in your role, then the role is not significant.
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
