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I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

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Eric Bana
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: August 9
Actor
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Racing Automobile Driver
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Television Actor
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Melbourne
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Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then comes the director. But essentially it's the script first and whether it's a character that you think you can do.
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I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.
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I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.
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