I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

Mark Frankel was just a very tender, thoughtful person, and that was really nice. At that point in life, I hadn't met a lot of people my senior who were that tender, and still doing well and making a real go of it. That was a treat, for sure.

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.