It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that was done wrong, which I'm not even going to get into. It was a pretty good idea and I liked where it was going, but then we got a chance to restart with Peter Lenkov [as executive producer/showrunner], who brought his vision to it. I remember reading his pilot script and it was just so exciting that I started hopping around my room.

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that.

At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.