As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.

The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.