Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.