fact #14
- in a interview for olive kitterage, cory was asked if he did any research on mental illness in preparation for his character. this is what he had to say :
"I did, a lot—into the differentiation between hallucinations and schizophrenia, depression versus bipolarity, and trying to find the line of him not having control over himself, but having him not be dangerous for someone to be around. So understanding mental health to such a degree, and navigating his behavior to a certain degree, that that behavior made sense, which I thought was very delicate. I didn't talk to any actual psychiatrists, but I looked at things online. And I have people in my life who are bipolar, and they're at varying degrees. I wanted to stay in the depression and not really touch the bipolar thing because I didn't want him to be aggressive to other people. So all the times that he starts to get agitated, I tried to tamp down and hold on to myself. There were two people in my life that I was paying attention to and trying to emulate in that performance—I find them to be slightly dangerous because they're so quiet, and you can tell a lot is going on in their minds."
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