As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

I say it was like this accidental research that I did for eight years. I had no idea I was researching the role of my career. But yeah, and there was this one casting director named Allison Jones, and for five years she would call me in every year for a different TV show and she just really was a big supporter of mine.