Watching [Charles] Laughton take those two polarities and connect them in a way that was exciting, dynamic, incredibly moving and sublime as a performance piece was a very seminal thing for me.
And there I am playing that character on primetime television.
I never had a particularly positive image of myself physically, but I felt like there was something in there that I wished I could share with the world.
It had more to do with things that are unseen, like the heart.