Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

My rule is you want someone whos got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in the business and can understand what youre going through but is not an actor themselves - is willing to run lines with you but when you start acting crazy, they throw up their hands and take you for what you are and be accepting.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.