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 didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.