It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.
As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.
I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.
Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.
I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.
Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
And sex is definitely part of college life.
I don't think a swimmer on film works unless you're Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball players; they're huge stars.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
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.
There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.
And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.
I just would like to spend more time in New York City.
I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.
