It was really fun to play a period piece because I've…

I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the…

— Emilie de Ravin

It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

— James Scott

It's really fun to play someone with no filter but who is also really good at what she does.

— Aidy Bryant

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

— Mallory Jansen

Every once and a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

— Elizabeth Mitchell

It's really fun to play a character that fights back and say what she means.

— Lauren Lapkus

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

— Elizabeth Banks

I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very…

— Kaya Scodelario

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters…

— Steven Knight

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

— Beau Mirchoff

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge…

— Amy Smart

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think…

— Ang Lee

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New…

— Jenny Slate

I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical…

— Dagmara Dominczyk

Every period piece is made in the context of the moment, always equally trying to capture something about now through then. But as an…

— Fred Hechinger