I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.

In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.

I was working with David Warner and John Rhys-Davies, who is from the Indiana Jones movies.He's a very strong, strong presence, and so I had to assert myself.