The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
Mark StrongWhen you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.
Mark StrongI had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.
Mark StrongYou need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall in love. They don't walk around with a big sign saying, "Bad guy," on their head. They think they're good guys. If you can play that, I think it makes it more interesting.
Mark Strong