I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.

I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.