I Was The Type Of Person That

I Try To Find Some Sort Of Meditative Hobby To Do On Set, And It's Different For Every Film. There's A Lot Of Downtime, But I Don't Like Reading On Set Because It Feels Like You're Taking Yourself Out Of Your World, Instead Of Being Present. And Then, You Feel Like You're Not Ready To Do Whatever You Have To Do.

I Had Started Acting When I Was 7, And I Was Always Wrong. I Would Always Get To The Very End [of The Audition], But I Wasn't A Perfect Package Of One Thing. I Wasn't A Cliche, And It Always Worked Against Me. I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Play The Popular Girl, I Wasn't Mousy Enough To Be The Mousy Girl. Then There Was A Tv Show That Toni Collette Was Starring In. And When A Role To Play A Girl Who Was Struggling With Identity Came, I Thought: "oh, This Is What I Was Supposed To Do. Everything's Leading Up To This Moment." I Was 18. I Was Like, "this Is It." I Didn't Get It. And I Was Devastated.

There's Nothing I'd Say That Keeps Me Awake At Night, But I Think That When You're Working With A Group Of People That Are So Beyond Talented That, Every Day, You Wake Up Going, "all Right, I Gotta Fight To Stay At The Same Level As These People," That's What Makes It Fun.

We Need To Have Points Of View From Lots Of Different Types Of People. People Who Have Different Backgrounds, Different Parts Of The World, Who Maybe Perceive Gender Differently. We're In This Time Where We Have Social Media, We Have The Ability To Share So Much, That I Think That We Need To Create More Space And More Opportunity For People That Are Just Outside Of The Typical Cliched Binary Roles.

I Was 3 When I Told My Mom That I Knew What My Dharma Was And That I Wanted To Be An Actor.