“Every preparation is the same, in that I deal with it in the same way. Can I do this? Can I pull it off? What do I need to learn? What should I look at? How much should I use my imagination? How much do I have to stick to the comic book? That kind of stuff.
That kind of fear, and you gather all of the information and look at it all, and panic, and then you start to slowly build this character. The hairdo is very different in this, can we do that, well it looks better on my head. We know that there’s going to be a certain amount of people who won’t like it, but then again, if they like the character and we create a character they’re able to invest in, they’re not really going to care about the hair. There’s that trust. You start to build something.
And then when you get into it, working out, not eating sugar, dieting, having eleven weeks to get into shape, to not use steroids, to do all that kind of stuff. I like all that kind of challenge. That’s as much a physical challenge as it is a psychic or emotional challenge. Then, doing something like No Country, where I broke my clavicle right before I did it. Two weeks before, I snapped it in a motorcycle accident. That lent whatever it lent to the character.”
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