I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

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

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.