The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

I remember they did all the makeup tests on me for Darla... Sorry, for "the vampire." I was the test monkey for the vampire look, so I went through numerous variations of the prosthetics and camera tests before I actually got the job.

It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction.

I was sent the script [of Havenhurst ], and I was out of town at the time, so I did a site meeting with Andrew [Erin]. It was so bizarre. I was staying in a hotel at the time, and the night before the meeting with Andrew, I learned there was a ghost in the hotel.

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

That movie [Jawbreaker] was so much fun to shoot. We were all in our mid-20s at the time, playing high school students. Which was the point. It was the point of the film to hire older actors to play high school students. But we had a blast.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.