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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.