'take a character' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a dramatic exercise, such as "Let's take a character from the story and act out a scene."
But would the Academy normally take a character role in a summer superhero blockbuster so seriously?
"How do you take a character and do something with it?
Another long-term goal of mine has been to take a character from a naturalistic story and travel with her into a different genre.
"I could outline a plot, take a character from Point A to Point B, but the interior life — the emotional underpinnings that account for behavior — eluded me".
Recently one of our clients asked us to lead a session in which each person on the team would take a character strength self-assessment.
Mr. Burton can take a character like Jack, this story's Grinch, and give his skull of a face blinking eyes and a button nose.
In her pictures, Rego never takes a character's side.
Mirren takes a character many people are prepared to mock and humanises her before our eyes.
It took a character three days to get the answer to this question "Where have you been".
"Lucy is the first time I've taken a character who is totally normal at the beginning of the film.
She's taken a character from that play about a family of American radicals, the gritty grandmother Vera, and placed her in another story that takes place a decade later.
