I think the phrase that resonates from ‘Just One Year’ is something I sort of live by: ‘The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.’
I love doing projects that flip my last project on its head. And I love the challenge of taking on different characters.
Yes. I’m a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.
When you think about exploring deep space, it’s very dangerous for humans. To potentially sacrifice human life is a delicate proposition. On the flip side, if you want to send a robot to another planet for an extended period of time and at some point you know it’ll cease to function, it’s not considered a tragedy.
I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff. I played those shows, and it would blow the lid off of everybody, and everybody would flip out.
When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.
