Even the Southern accent is larger than life... I was basically given permission to go big and to go all the way with him. Regina King and Tommy Schlamme, the directors, they encouraged that.
His writing is so detailed - the character descriptions are just, I mean, you're just taking notes. That accent was a lot of fun to pull up because Tom Wolfe described this accent that Charlie had as... So Tom did a lot of the work for me.
Understanding that he's larger than life, that he is the star of his own show, and everybody he meets is his audience... To have that big, bloated man's man of a male ego parading around like a peacock is certainly not where the country and the culture is now. But it was great fun.
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