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For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.
For me, as an actor, the challenge is mostly before the film starts when you have to get into the psychology of the character.
Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are given one character and asked to play in 10 different ways, it says more about me as an actor.
For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.