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.
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 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.
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 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.
