I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, you
You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.