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Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to ‘Leverage’ every year we’ve been doing it.
With ‘Kidnapped,’ there didn’t seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it’s immediate, and people write about it.
Any time that we read a script and the ‘Leverage’ team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists ourselves to take down the really bad con artists, it’s always fun to do that.
I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.
I remember, when we started ‘Leverage,’ we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, ‘Boy, this is just a real interesting place to begin a character.’ I had to figure out how to go about playing someone who had hit rock bottom.
Here’s one thing I can’t understand: people who are friends with their exes.
There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, ‘Well, clearly this show will have an audience; why wouldn’t it?’ And for whatever reason, it just doesn’t catch on. So you never know going in.
I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with friends. I’d just finished filming my first movie, ‘Ordinary People,’ but I didn’t know whether acting was what I wanted to do with my life.
TNT is a really great company to do a show for. They really believe in their shows and give shows a lot of support. They have it all worked out before you start shooting. Everybody’s on the same page.
What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it’s not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you’ve always needed.
In ‘Leverage,’ I don’t really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.
Treat Williams and I have been friends for years. To finally get to work together was great.
When I was doing ‘Ordinary People’ and ‘Taps,’ I never wondered if it would have a lasting impression. I was just wanting to make the best film we could and do my part in that and be true to what my responsibilities were.
There’s probably a little more creative freedom in cable versus network, a little less of a committee looking over everyone’s shoulder, but it depends on the network; it depends on the show; it depends on who the head writer or show runner is and what track record they have.
