American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
I don't even like football.
Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.