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Corey Stoll
American
Actor
Born:
Mar 14
,
1976
After
Being
Good
Myself
Think
You
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It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority.
Corey Stoll
Myself
Class
Rights
Plea
Liberal
Hierarchy
Kings
Impassioned
Divine
Observing
Like
Most
Making
Authority
Order
Compelling
Thing
Necessarily
The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
Corey Stoll
Time
You
Sometimes
Research
Exactly
Know
Role
Often
Where
Hard
Thing
Start
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
Corey Stoll
Generation
People
Lost
Sense
Think
Say
People Say
Were
Tragic
Romantic
Really
I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.
Corey Stoll
Walk
Down
Nobody
Knows
Am
Who
Street
I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.
Corey Stoll
Made
Secure
Would
Feel
Like
Know
Just
Actor
Starting
There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.
Corey Stoll
Enjoy
Think
Though
Out
More
New
Come
York
New York
Being
Stories
Place
Really
Fascinating
Even
Actually
Ton
I was not into B-movies. A lot of it is sloppy.
Corey Stoll
Sloppy
Lot
My wife was pregnant while we were promoting 'Ant-Man,' and that was very exciting, to see, like, action figures of myself, as we're getting the nursery ready.
Corey Stoll
Myself
Wife
Action
Nursery
Promoting
See
Exciting
Like
Ready
Were
Very
Getting
While
Pregnant
Figures
I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until I started the show.
Corey Stoll
Batman
Spider-Man
Superhero
Stuff
Until
Familiar
Strain
Show
Started
It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.
Corey Stoll
You
Book
People
Challenge
Be True
Television
Television Series
True
Also
Material
Source
Source Material
Want
Turn
Toes
Series
Keep
Need
In some ways, it's easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to peel away a certain amount of artifice. When you're on set that much, there's a license to let the character emerge from the work itself.
Corey Stoll
Work
Character
You
Peel
Ways
Easier
License
Some
Emerge
Scene
Week
Lead
Force
Itself
Artifice
After
Rhythms
Much
Certain
Away
Amount
Filming
Set
What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses.
Corey Stoll
Selfish
Brilliant
Girl
Characters
About
Neuroses
Allowed
Psychological
Ludicrous
Foundation
Away
Deeper
Shy
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
Corey Stoll
Work
Art
World
Political
Distract
Become
Points
Misinterpreted
Simply
New
Political Act
Doing
Score
Artist
New World
Where
Act
The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.
Corey Stoll
Saying
Good
Bad
More
Attack
Proud
Very
Than
Artists
Anything
Them
Us
Act
Stand
Who
I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.
Corey Stoll
Justice
Losing
Long
Hair
Incredibly
Hiding
Kind
Something
Poetic
Never
Had
Knew
Begin
Behind
Really
Fat
My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.
Corey Stoll
Me
You
Parents
Birds
Out
Tell
About
Never
Open
Had
Know
Bees
Very
After college, I was an intern at the New York Theater Workshop. In the mornings, I would build sets and hang lights, and in the afternoon, I would be the reader for auditions.
Corey Stoll
College
Build
Sets
Would
Would-Be
Mornings
Lights
New
Reader
Auditions
York
Hang
New York
After
Afternoon
Theater
Intern
Workshop
Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.
Corey Stoll
Thinking
Back
Idea
Like
Terrible
Up
Used
Growing
Growing Up
What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.
Corey Stoll
You
Hate
Audience
Get
Really
Working
Fun
Villain
The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.
Corey Stoll
Good
Strong
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
Only
Good Guy
I think, sometimes, actors having a holistic view of what they're in can be overrated. Especially when you're playing somebody as narcissistic and self-involved as Ernest Hemingway, it doesn't really matter what else is in the script.
Corey Stoll
You
Sometimes
Matter
Somebody
Think
Else
Having
Narcissistic
Overrated
Ernest Hemingway
Script
Holistic
Really
View
Hemingway
Actor
Playing
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