Alessandro Nivola

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.