Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My very first role was with James Earl Jones on 'Gabriel's Fire' on TV. He drove a Chevy Citation, which is the exact same car that I bought from a guy in San Francisco called Sandy Boone. I showed up on set, and James Earl Jones was driving the car I had bought from Sandy for $250.
I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.
I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.
I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.
No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.
I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.