Is it difficult going from one movie to the next and abandoning certain attributes from previous characters?
I don’t feel that way but I know a lot of people do. I feel like it’s so helpful to me because then I always have ideas, I’m always in this mode. I actually found it really hard to do a series, and I ended up getting out of my contract after three seasons because I felt like I couldn’t come up with stuff for the same thing over and over again. I need new ideas, so I find it easy. It’s weird because all my old roles actually feel like different stages of my life. When did you decide to take the plunge and become an actress? I always think about that. There were two defining moments when I think back. One, when I was really young and I went to see Les Miserables and I wanted to be Éponine, so I think I wanted to be in musicals and that was just the most amazing experience. I felt like I left the earth just watching that. Then I did a play, and my high school vice principal came up to me afterwards and told me how good and funny I was, and even though it was a terrible little play, and I,
