I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

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.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

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.

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 axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.