It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.
I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.
Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.