As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people.

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

Certainly when you're dealing with more deep emotional work and sensory work, for me it helps me to just stay in it.

I think Billy Ray has a lot of great stories up his sleeve. I've heard a lot of his plans for the show, should it go forward, and I think there's a lot in store for people, if it's given a chance.