It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

I've been lucky enough to go back and forth.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.