You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.