There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'
On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.
At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
As actors, for the most part, there's that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get killed off of this show, and that character get killed off of that show - one never knows.
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
I'm not going to be on the show 'Breaking Bad.'
One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
If 'Titanic' was one of our telenovelas, we would probably have added a pair of dolphins to save Jack at the end. We don't kill the good guy.
The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy.