It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.
It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.
Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.
I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.
I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.