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[ Angel Series] Really Taught Me That Acting Is Not Just About Being Emotionally Challenged. It's About Being Physically Challenged. And I Enjoyed Both Aspects Of That.

It's Really Interesting - I Wanted To Become An Actress When I Was Young Because I Wanted To Do Romantic Comedy. And I Did A Lot Of Comedies Very Early On, But Then My Career Took Kind Of A Left Turn With Joss Whedon, And I Discovered That Doing Genre Work Is Actually More Interesting As An Actor, Because The Given Circumstances Are More Extreme. And It Really Is Creatively More Challenging.

If You're Offered Something, You're Not Really Sure Exactly What Is That They Saw In You That They Think Is The Character So It's A Little Scary, I Feel.

I Worked So Hard On That Role [of Debra In Dexter]. And I Barely Worked On Rita. But I Read For Casting - Both Parts - And They Said, "that's Great, We're Going To Bring You In For Producers." So I Read For Some Producers - Both Parts - And They Said, "that's Great, We're Going To Bring You In To Meet The Creator." And I Went In, And As Soon As I Walked In The Room, He Looked At Me And He Said, "oh My God, You're Our Rita!" And I Said, "no! I'm Deb! I'm A Total Deb!" "no, You're Rita!".

I'd Always Thought That Acting Was, Like, You Had To Work Really Hard, You Had To Change The Way You Walked, You Talked, And All Of That. But That's Not Acting. That's Shmacting.