Words matter. These are the best Eric Johnson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You dream about getting to be a part of really solid projects.
The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I’m in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my Christmas present to my dad.
I’ve played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on ‘The Knick’ where it was super uncomfortable – some of the things I had to do and say.
Actors are almost conditioned to get their director’s approval. ‘I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?’ Actors are infantilized so much.
Sometimes it’s tough as a supporting character: you are on the sidelines, and you don’t get to be there for most of the fun stuff. You are hearing about all the great stuff that is going on, but you never get to be a part of it.
It’s pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It’s a pretty amazing feeling.
When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they’re in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about ‘The Knick’ at all.
Movies are a big thing in our house. Every Friday, we do family pizza night, and we make pizza from scratch, and then we sit down and watch a movie.
Growing up in Canada, none of my family were performers or anything like that, but I was terrible at hockey, so they needed something for me to do on Saturdays for me to get out of the house. I signed up for theater school on Saturdays, and I’d go for four-and-a-half hours every Saturday morning and learn about theater.
One of things that drives me nuts is you rarely get bad guys who are written very well.
I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.
I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I’m mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.
I had a friend who had done the cinematics for ‘Splinter Cell: Conviction,’ so he kind of indoctrinated me into the series. I did a bunch of temp stuff for him – I roughed stuff in the game for him, playing about nine characters – just so he had some character templates to work from.
It doesn’t feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.
