You can say I had a severe case of Roots envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, its quick action and no fear, and sometimes its irrational fear. You dont always know. – Victoria Pratt