122 | What Do Professional Actors Look For In Good Scripts? (ft. Allison Tolman)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Is There Anything You Need in a Small Role?
I think for me, like depth and nuance is really important. The bigger the role, the more depth and nuance that you need. I'm a big fan of like humor in its many forms,. There's not to be a person who's like telling jokes and like doing punchlines. If there's like a sense of irony there, a sense of like self-awareness even in like really heavy material, I find that really fun to play.
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