I was on Stargate: Atlantis for four years, playing a similar character called Ronon, who was an alien that didn't say much and grunted. I've been there and done that. Whether people have seen it or not, you want to stretch. And then, while I waited, I got The Red Road, and I'd never gotten anything like that.

A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English.

How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.

I don't really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor.

The new celebrity thing is going to take some time to get used to because I really am not used to that!

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.