I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.
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I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?'
As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.
In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
When people go to the theater, they don't want to think 'I know exactly what I'm gonna get,' and then they get it and then they walk out. I think you want to walk in going 'I don't really know what this is about,' and have the fun of discovering it.
I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.