The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.
I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.
I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.
Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.