When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you’re hoping the person you’re acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength. Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with ‘Bombay Dreams.’ Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that ‘Homeland’ does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters. Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
Some actors – myself included – like to know where your character’s going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you’re going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on ‘Homeland,’ you do the opposite. Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
Homeland’ really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what’s kind of going on in a relationship between characters. Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
It’s very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage. Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
Everyone thinks with ‘Smash,’ because it looks glossy and big, they think they’re spending a fortune, and they think it’s taking weeks to shoot. Raza Jaffrey Read Quote
