I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be. ↗
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director. ↗
Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet. ↗