David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.

Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept. So we'd have somebody standing guard at the door to keep all the computer science guys out. We had to guard our women at all times.

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

I am kind of giant … on (the True Blood) set.

I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.

[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.