As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.
Ben MendelsohnI think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
Ben MendelsohnThere are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.
Ben MendelsohnI think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.
Ben Mendelsohn