Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Maysis an American film, stage and television actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1965
CountryUnited States of America
enjoy people surprised wanna
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
carpet musical
A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
literature reluctant sort
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
people velcro
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
fully however
I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.