It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.