At the end of the day, it's a show [Daredevil ] not about a superhero, but it's about a man. Hopefully, that's what we're doing with The Punisher, as well. It's an enormous honor to play this character. It's a character that's quite iconic and very important to a lot of people.

I'm not a big shopper.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

I played sports in high school and in college.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.