"She makes emotional connections to characters who remind her of positive times in her life".
Reflecting on identification and imaginative affinities, Mead defends readers who feel connections to characters and authors against charges of naive or presumptuous reading.
Tilton landed the role of Lucy when she was just 17, and as she tells "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" in the above video, she instantly felt a personal connection to the character, due in part to her own upbringing in Los Angeles.
You were warned, Quicksilver does not survive this film but with limited screen time and character development there was no chance to develop an emotional connection to the character before his death.
In this case, the central mystery involves Aomame's connection to another character — an aspiring novelist, Tengo, who agrees to a shady ghostwriting deal: He will secretly revise a manuscript by a promising but unpolished 17-year-old, the enigmatic Fuka-Eri, so it can be submitted for a major literary prize.
When I first saw the breakdown, I knew this was something I wanted to be a part of because I felt a deep connection to the character's Irish American background.
There's a connection to the character.
I loved the script and really felt a connection to the character, but I never thought I'd get to do it.
But in the urgency of selling themselves to Green for the coveted roles, they divulge painfully intimate stories in the hope of establishing the bona fides of their emotional connection to the character they'd be playing.
Mr. Falls, who spent months working on "Desire" with Ms. Gugino by phone and then in rehearsals, said he believes that her experiences in her youth have deepened her connection to her character.
