The Climate Informs The Character.

The Power Of Television - It's So Present In Our Lives, We Don't Even Know How Powerful It Is.

That's Probably The Biggest Secret Of Acting: If The Actor Believes It Themselves, They Can Make You Believe It.

You Have This Certain About Of Responsibility To Play A Fictitious Character And You Have A Script That's Guiding You And The Other Information Of The Custom Department's Choices, And The Set Department, "where Are You," And All Those Other Pieces Of Information But You Have To Cull From Your Imagination The Answer To All The Unasked Questions. And With A Real Person, There's Someone To Get That Information From, Perhaps.

I Was Really Not Familiar At All With Edward Snowden. I Like To Get That Right Out Of The Way And Really Learned Most Of What I Know From Oliver's [stones] Script.

I Definitely Consider Myself A Method Actor, Because Of My Training. I Might Dispute What People Consider A Method Actor To Be. For My Money, A Method Actor Is An Actor Who Has A Technique. That Has A Method. And Not One Method, But Whatever Might Be Required. So A Method Actor Is Always Learning.