I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.
I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.
Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."
The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
The cliché about young actors is that they want to diversify the work that they do to show their range, but it's true. Or at least, for me, I want to keep doing different stuff; doing different work, you see different things.
You can't just be one of those guys where the whole league knows what you are and categorizes you as that and you accept that. I want to be one of those guys who expands his zone. Kind of like what Kawhi did.
The first choice for me is what's going to make me stretch out in my craft?
And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.
As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.
I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.
I've expanded my skill-set through a very limited number of projects and been very lucky with the outcomes most of the time.
I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
