Alessandro Nivola
Alessandro Nivola
Alessandro Antine Nivolais an American actor and producer, who has starred in feature films such as Face/Off, American Hustle and A Most Violent Year...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth28 June 1972
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
real stories research
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.
writing film hard
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
strong judging people
People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
character people acting
I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
children growing-up kids
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.
responsibility mind bigger
It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.
growing-up play done
Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.
helping speak accents
When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
party school college
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
preparation trying firsts
With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.
real decision way
You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
able actors accents
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
actors boundaries wanted
I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
anybody freelance knows life ups work
Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.