In the World of Mages, where there's a fantastical element to so much, how did you ground the characters?
But I'm trying to ground the characters in the choices I make, you make, we all make in our lives every day.
I could use Kampala — and, by extension, elements of Uganda's history — to ground the characters, but I also needed the freedom to imagine a distinct world for them according to the needs and demands of the story I was imagining.
Amid all the contrivances, Hyde Pierce manages to ground his character in some kind of warped reality — something Metzler's overdetermined script makes difficult for the rest.
Of these, the most engaging is with his daughter, Tullia, to whom he is devoted; she is the most fully realised female character in what is perhaps inevitably an almost entirely male book, but these glimpses of Cicero's home life humanise and ground his character.
It's a monument to tHis crazy, earnest glee comic book films can have when we refuse to water them down or regard their heroics with a knowing smirk.
In conversation with Jamie Lee Curtis for Variety's and PBS' "Actors on Actors" series, Gaga revealed that she used "Jinx" subject Robert Durst to ground her character in real-life events, modeling the Countess' questionable morals after Durst's criminal tendencies. .
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Hardy's characters ground her (and us) in an old historical truth: "Absolute power corrupts and involuntary poverty corrupts if it can".
Create a few middle-ground characters.
