And sex is definitely part of college life.
Scott Speedman
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.
And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.
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.
Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.
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 mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.
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 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 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.
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.
I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.
I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.
Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.
You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.
If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?
I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.
I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.
I don't really try to give out advice, to be honest.
I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.
'O.J.: Made in America' was one of the best things I've seen in a long time.
I'm a gross human being.
I don't have much of a personal life.
Balance has never been my strong suit.
You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.
It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.
I would love to do a big movie - a 'Marvel' movie.
I love movies so much.
I love Andre Braugher, and I'm a big fan of Shawn Ryan.
My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.
I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.
I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.
Actors, I find, are generally happy to be working.
I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends.
I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.
I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.
I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.
