After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach YOUNGER VOTERS, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in FACT, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a DEPRESSED Republican base.

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself GOALS, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something SIMPLE like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a WAY it's not about booking the JOB or not. It's about what I LEARNED as an actor about that character.