Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

I think it's necessary when you're dealing with a dark show that has explosion and violence to have defined moments of lightness and humor, even romance. It's important, and it deepens the character, of course.

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.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.