It's a fight for every actor to surpass what they have done in their previous film, especially when it is accepted hugely.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.
If you play with the big time players, you will also improve.
Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.
Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it's like, 'OK, what do you got now?' Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do?
I just want better competition the more I step up.
When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.