“With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.”
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I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping, ' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.