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

Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

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.

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

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.