I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.
There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success.
I look for characters who are emotionally driven.
It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.
Actors make choices for different reasons.