We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.
I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.
Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.
I'm leaving. I'm doing five episodes this year, then I'll be headed out.
For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.
I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.
The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
I was on 'Home and Away' for about three or four months. I loved it.