July 28 - Kurt Russell interview

In an interview promoting his new flick Sky High, Kurt Russell voluntarily offers up his experience doing Elvis roles as an example of how to create characters:

Even when you’re gonna play Elvis Presley, you don’t take Elvis Presley and do Elvis Presley. What you do is you try and understand why Elvis appears to you that way. What’s the illusion you’ve gotta create to make other people see what you see? And if you do that and succeed at it, then at least when you’re doing it you know why and what the audience is getting.