My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a guaranteed go. It was going to be 24 [episodes] on the air. No questions from NBC. And we shot the pilot, and I was in Toronto doing a movie, and I got a call saying they cut the character, that I was off the show.

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

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

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.