Singer Taylor Swift had a brief role in the film ‘Valentine’s Day’ and voiced a character in ‘The Lorax’ but hasn’t fully launched a career as an actress yet. The award winning musician has revealed that she is always reading scripts in order to try and find one that she is truly passionate about, because that is what she believes all the best actors do. She comments that in her spare time she reads:
“I’ve been reading scripts for about five years – just kind of under the radar, asking my agents to please send me everything that might be good. In my free time I just read and read. When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.”
Taylor says that she wouldn’t want to take a role she wasn’t really excited about, because another actress might feel really passionate about the part and it wouldn’t be fair to take that away from them. She also says she is looking for a story that really captures her attention and tells a fantastic story:
“If I got a script that I thought was OK and a character that I kind of liked and could pull off but wasn’t obsessed with, that would be unfair to someone else who might be obsessed with that character. So if I do a movie, you will know I cannot think of anything other than that character. I’m such a fan of great writing and great storytelling. I’m looking for great, powerful writing behind whatever cast is surrounding it, whatever director is steering it – that would all be peripheral to the fact that the story is brilliant and has to be told.”
