Benicio Del Toro

I don't come from a family of theater.

I did watch movies when I was younger, like anybody else, but I never thought about what was behind it.

And acting was looked at as not really a profession, not something that you...

would consider a real profession.

In my world, as I was growing up, you know, a profession would be being an architect, being a lawyer, being a doctor, being a dentist.

Yes, yes.

Many of my family members were lawyers.

And my godmother, who... I lost my mom when I was nine.

She was the one who stepped in, you know, kind of like...

helped a lot, and she was a lawyer as well.

But acting was like a hobby.

You don't turn that into a profession.

So when going into Stella for me was like, it is as important as any other profession that we consider important.

There was a respect for the craft.

It made it exciting for me.

It made me feel proud.

Yeah.

She told every actor, don't go to the lines right away.

Because it's crucial that you need to understand why that character, that person...

once you need to understand where that character you know is coming from where it's going and um so the first way to understand it is just put yourself in that person's shoe and then from then on you can then build and create a character that maybe eventually doesn't resemble you