You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.