A Quote by Mukul Dev

At 36, I think I should be more mature and handle characters with darker shades. — © Mukul Dev
At 36, I think I should be more mature and handle characters with darker shades.
I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.
I'd definitely say I end up being more attracted to darker roles. Probably because I like darker movies and plus, just as an actor, I think it's always more fun to play the darker roles where you get to stretch your arms a little bit more. It's like therapeutic.
I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.
To be honest, even I was tanned three shades darker in 'Love Sonia.' The fact that people were able to connect to my character was very important. Why should we not have that kind of makeup?
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
At 36, I think I was pretty happy [actually], but here's the thing that I think happens... you're expected to be somewhere at 36, and there's that feeling: At this particular age - especially for women for God's sake - you should have this many kids, you should have a husband, or you should have this... and it's overwhelming. So that perpetuates the feeling that no matter where you are, no matter how much money you have, no matter how many kids you have, no matter how great they're doing, whether you want kids or not, married or not, it doesn't matter - you feel behind.
What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.
I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
I've always had trouble finding makeup in darker shades.
I think, almost, the film industry thinks that by making gay characters super masculine, it's an attempt at saying being gay is OK if you act like straight people. I don't think we should just have gay characters who are 100 percent femme, either. I just think it's about that mix and creating more diverse gay characters.
In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.
As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
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