After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.