Word: characterã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...have a lot of women in my family, but I hadn’t studied them as much as I did after I met Nancy. So I started to study how great women characters had been written, and what I found that it came down to was letting every character??not just the women characters—have their private moments, where you could just be with them and see how they react to the world, and see their private joy and pain. Kate and Penélope both have this great ability to make you feel like...
...much because of lack of inspiration or material. I have a little notebook full of ideas and sentences that I haven’t used yet. I get writer’s block more from fear, from not feeling up to the challenge of getting into my character??s heads and emotions. So instead I’ll stare into space, dye my hair, eat something fatty and spicy. I can’t find enough big chunks of time to write these days, so I’ll keep notes and write stuff on my arms...
...complain when there’s so much to praise? Daniel Radcliffe is picture perfect as the young Harry. While he seems a little unsure of himself at times, he ideally plays his character??s maturation from unsuspecting innocent to wizened first year graduate. Newcomer Rupert Grint is adorable as the red-headed Ron Weasley. He heaves huge sighs every time he becomes aggravated, and displays an honest look of amazement at all of Hogwarts’ wonders. As the third member of their trio, Emma Watson makes a proper Hermione Granger, although her role is slightly softened...
...preening, cajoling, even begging, he radiates charisma, as well as a sad sort of desperation that the character is unaware he possesses. A lesser actor might be inclined to soften the character and play him as a pimp with a heart of gold. Gray, though, avoids all of the character??s traps, forging ahead with a portrayal that embraces greed in such a visceral sense that one cannot help but embrace him and eagerly follow wherever he leads...
...praised Pusey’s willingness to “unflinchingly take a leadership role” and his “constancy of character?? amidst the turmoil of the times in the final years of his Harvard tenure...