00:00Miss Gay Harden, you have worked with great directors, Coen Brothers, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood a couple of times.
00:15What are you trying to find in your roles for saying, yes, I will do it?
00:21The character has to speak to me. It has to feel like there's something I can bring to it.
00:27Sometimes I read something and I think I can't bring anything to that. There's no reason to cast me in that role.
00:34But what are we saying about humanity? It sounds so important, but it is actually important.
00:42What are we saying? What is the character saying? Is she saying something that I want to put out in the world?
00:48Even if she's evil, bad, what is her quest? What is her human spirit? What is she making all of us recognize?
00:56I want her to be recognizable. So if she's written as too much one way, let's say too dark or too happy or too sweet, it's my job to bring what someone else would recognize, right?
01:09To bring the depth to it. So that's one thing.
01:13But sometimes if I think, oh, I think I understand it, then if I have a director who says, what about this?
01:20I go, ah. So their vision is really important to me as well to try to understand what that vision is and what that style is.
